Sackville Arthur Cecil
1848–98
Company director. Fifth son of James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, second marquess of Salisbury (d. 1868), and Mary Catherine Stanley. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1869. Assistant general manager of the Great Eastern Railway, 1878–80. General Manager, Metropolitan District Railway, 1880–5. Chairman of the Exchange Telegraph Company, 1889–98.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
Burke’s peerage.
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.
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