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 was 11 at the time.

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.

Parsons was born Ingram Cecil Connor III on November 5, 1946, in Winter Haven, Florida, to Ingram Cecil (" Coon Dog ") and Avis ( née Snively ) Connor.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).

Cecil was born in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1520, the son of Richard Cecil, owner of the Burghley estate ( near Stamford, Lincolnshire ), and his wife, Jane Heckington.

* Cecil Bridgewater ( born 1942 ), American jazz trumpetist and composer

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

* Private Cecil John Kinross VC ( 1896-1957 ), who distinguished himself at Passchendaele in World War I, was born in Harefield ; he moved with his family in 1912 to Lougheed, Alberta.

The singer Rachel Stevens from S Club 7 and jazz singer Amy Winehouse both were born in Southgate and went to Ashmole School on Cecil Road.

Browne was born in New York City, New York to CBS radio personalities Cecil Margaret Davis and Edson Bradford Browne and grew up in Los Angeles, California.

* Cecil Gumbi ( born 1988 ), Zimbabwean businessman

* Brett Cecil ( born 1986 ), Canadian baseball pitcher

* Cecil Bødker ( born 1927 ), Danish writer

* Cecil Brooks III ( born 1961 ), American jazz drummer

* Cecil Clarke ( born 1968 ), Canadian Legislative Assemblymen

* Cecil Cooper ( born 1949 ), American baseball player and manager

* Cecil Dolecheck ( born 1951 ), Iowa State Representative from the 96th District

* Cecil Fielder ( born 1963 ), American baseball player

* Cecil Humphery-Smith ( born 1928 ), British genealogist and heraldist

* Cecil Mamiit ( born 1977 ), American tennis player representing the Philippines

* Cecil McBee ( born 1935 ), American post bop jazz bassist

* Cecil Parkinson ( born 1931 ), British politician

* Cecil Potter ( born 1888 ), former professional manager

* Cecil Sandford ( born 1928 ), British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer

* Cecil Taylor ( born 1929 ), American pianist and poet