William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter

William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter, KG PC (1566 – 6 July 1640), known as the third Lord Burghley from 1605 to 1623, was an English nobleman, politician, and peer.

[1] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and travelled on the continent before being admitted to Gray's Inn.

[1] He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron of Burghley, co. Northampton [E., 1571] on 8 February 1622/23.

[1] In 1589, William married Elizabeth Manners, the only child of Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland, and they had one child: Elizabeth died in 1591 and William married Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Sir William Drury and Elizabeth Stafford, and they had three daughters:[4] This biography of an earl or countess in the Peerage of England is a stub.

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