Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes ProCon History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture Money Videos
Lord David Cecil
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Read Next
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
Discover
The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)
11 Banned Books Through Time
Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls
Pro and Con: School Uniforms
Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer
Was Santa Claus a Real Person?
New York NY/ USA- November 23, 2018 Hordes of shoppers throng the Macy's Herald Square flagship store in New York looking for bargains on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday.
Why Is It Called Black Friday?
Super Typhoon Noru over the western tropical Pacific Ocean as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Aqua satellite July 31 2017
What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?
Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)
8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History
An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Lord David Cecil: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Lord-David-Cecil
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne Cecil
Born April 9, 1902 • London • England
Died January 1, 1986 (aged 83) • Cranborne Chase • England
Notable Works “Library Looking-glass”
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
John Wain
British critic and writer
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
Aldington, Richard
Richard Aldington
English author
portrait of Austin Dobson
Austin Dobson
British author
Lockhart, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1830
John Gibson Lockhart
Scottish biographer
Eavan Boland
Irish poet and literary critic
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
Maurice Baring
British author
Saint John Ervine
British dramatist
Edmund Clarence Stedman
American writer
John Morley
John Morley, Viscount Morley
English statesman
Mary Novello Clarke
English author
Sidney Colvin
English scholar
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic