What is the origin of the name Cecil?
Welsh (Monmouthshire): from the Old Welsh personal name Seisyllt sometimes wrongly said to derive from the Latin name Caecilius (see Sisley). The most frequent modern spelling is a Renaissance attempt to connect [...]
The life of Spencer Compton, eighth duke of Devonshire (Volume 1)
...His mother was Lady Elizabeth Cecil, daughter of the second Earl of Salisbury.... (Devon, United Kingdom - 1685)
...His mother was Lady Elizabeth Cecil, daughter of the second Earl of Salisbury.... (Devon, United Kingdom - 1685)
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The life of Spencer Compton, eighth duke of Devonshire (Volume 1)
...had come of this. Lord Robert Cecil (afterwards Lord Salisbury), in an article in the Quarterly Review in 1866, alleged... (Devon, United Kingdom - 1866)
...had come of this. Lord Robert Cecil (afterwards Lord Salisbury), in an article in the Quarterly Review in 1866, alleged... (Devon, United Kingdom - 1866)
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What is the origin of the name Cecil?
Welsh (Monmouthshire): from the Old Welsh personal name Seisyllt sometimes wrongly said to derive from the Latin name Caecilius (see Sisley). The most frequent modern spelling is a Renaissance attempt to connect [...]