Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne MP (1619 – December 1660),[1] was an English nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648.
Cranborne was the eldest son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury and his wife Lady Catherine Howard, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Suffolk and bore the courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne.
Although not specifically excluded under Pride's Purge, he is not recorded as sitting subsequently.
Cranborne predeceased his father at the age of 40 without inheriting the earldom.
Their son James succeeded his grandfather as Earl of Salisbury.