Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

The Right Honourable The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH PC QC
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 10 November 1924 – 19 October 1927
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Josiah Wedgwood
Succeeded by	The Lord Cushendum
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
In office 28 May 1923 – 22 January 1924
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Austen Chamberlain
Succeeded by	John Robert Clynes
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 30 May 1915 – 10 January 1919
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George
Preceded by	Neil Primrose
Succeeded by	Cecil Harmsworth
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 28 December 1923 – 24 November 1958 Hereditary peerage
Member of Parliament for Hitchin
In office 23 November 1911 – 16 November 1923
Preceded by	Alfred Peter Hillier
Succeeded by	Guy Kindersley
Member of Parliament for Marylebone East
In office 12 January 1906 – 15 January 1910
Preceded by	Edmund Boulnois
Succeeded by	James Boyton
Personal details
Born	(1864-09-14)14 September 1864 Cavendish Square, London, England
Died	24 November 1958(1958-11-24) (aged 94) Danehill, East Sussex, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Lady Eleanor Lambton (1868–1959)
Parent(s)	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Georgina Alderson
Education	University College, Oxford (MA)
Profession	Lawyer
Awards	Nobel Peace Prize (1937)

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, CH, PC, QC (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923,^[1] was a British lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations and a defender of it, whose service to the organisation saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937.