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The 1st Viscount Wimbledon ( Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt, 1631) Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (29 February 1572 – 16 November 1638) was an English military commander and a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1624.
Lord Edward Herbert Gascoyne-Cecil KCMG DSO (12 July 1867 – 13 December 1918), known as Lord Edward Cecil, was a distinguished and highly decorated English soldier. As colonial administrator in Egypt and advisor to the Liberal government, he helped to implement Army reforms.
CECIL, Sir Edward (1572-1638), of Cecil House, The Strand, Westminster; The Farm, Chelsea, Mdx. and Wimbledon, Surr. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 , ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon (1572-1638) A Journall and relation of the action which by his Majesties commandement Edward Lord Cecil, Baron of Putney and Vicount of Wimbledon, Admirall and Lieutenant Generall of his Majesties forces, did undertake upon the coast of Spaine, 1625.
Sir Edward Cecil, a battle-hardened soldier fighting for the Dutch, was appointed commander of the expedition by the Duke of Buckingham. The choice of commander was ill-judged because Cecil was a good soldier but had little knowledge of the sea.
- 1-7 November 1625
- Spanish victory [1] [2]
- Bay of Cádiz (Spain)
Cecil was a favourite of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral and, in 1625, Supreme Commander of an expedition against the coast of Spain. Cecil was appointed deputy in command of the expedition, with the grand title Lord Marshal and General of the Sea and Land Forces.
A grandson of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth I's Minister, Edward Cecil entered military service in about 1596. He served under Sir Francis Vere in the Low Countries, during the wars between the Dutch and Spanish.
