Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

Cecil DeMille's famous niece was named after her.

His brother William was already establishing himself as a playwright and sometimes worked in collaboration with Cecil.

Cecil B. DeMille was known for being an instrumental catalyst for the rising status of many a struggling or unknown actor.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

In the early 20th century, ECD was revived in England by Cecil Sharp, who also was known for collecting folksongs.

When Cecil Sharp produced his interpretations he was working in the dark, and others have built on ( and sometimes disagreed with ) his work.

The first practical electron microscope was constructed in 1938, at the University of Toronto, by Eli Franklin Burton and students Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus ; and Siemens produced the first commercial transmission electron microscope ( TEM ) in 1939.

William Cecil was already seeking solutions to the succession problem.

Since Elizabeth would never name her successor, Cecil was obliged to proceed in secret.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

During his first year at Cecil House, Oxford was briefly tutored by Laurence Nowell, the antiquarian and Anglo-Saxon scholar.

Anne had been pledged to Philip Sidney two years earlier, but after a year of negotiations Sidney's father, Sir Henry, was declining in favor with the queen and Cecil suspected financial difficulties.

Cecil was displeased with the arrangement, given his daughter's age compared to Oxford's, and had entertained the idea of her marrying the Earl of Rutland instead.

Aside from the unspoken conviction that Elizabeth was not his child, Burghley's papers reveal a flood of bitter complaints by Oxford against the Cecil family.

On 5 June 1588 Anne Cecil died at court of a fever ; she was 31.

Any hope Oxford might have had of assuming parental care of his daughters was dashed by Sir Robert Cecil, due to the fact that he had never supported them financially in the past, and now had yet another wife and child.

On 4 December he was shocked that Cecil, who had encouraged him to undertake the Danvers suit on the Crown's behalf, had now withdrawn his support for it.

Their son, William Cecil was born in Westminster on 28 March 1591 and baptized in St Clement Danes on 11 April.

On the morning of 11 July 1936, Major Hugh Pollard, and Cecil Bebb left Croydon Airport for the Canary Islands in a de Havilland Dragon Rapide aircraft, where they picked up General Francisco Franco, taking him to Spanish Morocco and thereby helping to trigger the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

* In 1967 David Drummond opened Pleasures of Past Times at 11 Cecil Court, specializing in memorabilia of the performing arts and " printed items evocative of a leisured age ", making him the longest-serving bookseller on the street.

* Lady Beatrix Cecil ( 11 April 1858 – 27 April 1950 ), married the 2nd Earl of Selborne

Sir Henry Richard Amherst Cecil ( born 11 January 1943 ) is a successful English flat racing trainer, widely regarded as one of the greatest trainers to have ever graced the Turf.

Cecil was born on 11 January 1943 in a hospital near Aberdeen, ten minutes ahead of his twin brother David.

* Lady Margaret Elizabeth Cecil ( 1850 – 11 March 1919 )

Mary Morenz and Cecil Hart were called to the hospital ; around 11: 30 pm, Morenz tried to get out of bed to use the washroom but collapsed on the floor and died minutes before his wife and coach arrived.

Claus Cecil Boberg, known as Claus von Bülow ( born 11 August 1926 ), is a British socialite of German and Danish ancestry.

William Cecil Ross ( May 11, 1911-June 4, 1998 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada, and the leader of that province's Communist Party from 1948 until his retirement in 1981.

Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar ( 11 November 1906 – 30 June 1985 ) was a Royal Navy officer, who served in the submarine service during the Second World War.

Cecil Howard Green ( August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003 ) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* Province of Maryland – Granted by Charles I of England to Cæcilius Calvert ( Cecil ), 2nd Baron Baltimore in the Peerage of Ireland, and continued of a dynasty of Barons of Baltimore ( except the last incumbent ) 20 June 1632 – 11 November 1776

Chuck Cecil was featured on the October 11, 1993 issue of Sports Illustrated with the question: " Is Chuck Cecil Too Vicious for the NFL?

James Cecil Dickens ( born December 19, 1920 ), better known as Little Jimmy Dickens, is an American country music singer famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size, 4 ' 11 " ( 150 cm ), and his rhinestone-studded outfits.

George Edward Cecil Wigg, Baron Wigg PC ( 28 November 1900 – 11 August 1983 ) was a British politician who only served in relatively junior offices but had a great deal of influence behind the scenes, especially with Harold Wilson.

Charles Cecil ( August 11, 1962 ) and Noirin Carmody have two kids, Ciara and David, who are credited in Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon and the new editions of Beneath a Steel Sky and Broken Sword.

Cecil Henry " Babe " Dye ( May 13, 1898 – January 3, 1962 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto St. Pats, Chicago Black Hawks, New York Americans and Toronto Maple Leafs.

Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt, GBE, KCB ( Chinese Translated Name: 夏慤 ; 11 April 1892 – 19 December 1959 ), was a British naval officer.

This was followed by the first public performance, which was given as part of a charity benefit by the Moray Minstrels ( along with Kate, Florence and Ellen Terry and others ) for C. H. Bennett, on 11 May 1867 at the Adelphi Theatre, with du Maurier as Box, Quintin Twiss as Cox and Arthur Cecil as Bouncer, performing as an amateur under his birth name, Arthur Blunt.

Thomas Cecil Gray CBE KCSG ( 11 March 1913 – 5 January 2008 ) was a pioneering British anaesthetist.

* Lady Rose Alice Elizabeth Cecil ( b. 11 September 1956 )

Henry Francis Cecil Vane ( b. 11 March 1959 )-has issue