# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lord-william-cecil
# Generated: 2026-09-07T04:44:24.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lord-william-cecil"
name: "Lord William Cecil"
slug: "lord-william-cecil"
description: "Lord Rupert Ernest William Gascoyne-Cecil was Bishop of Exeter from 1916 to 1936. He was the second son of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was rector of Hatfield for 28 years before being appointed a bishop. Married in 1887, he had three daughters and four sons, three of whom were killed in the First World War. As bishop he was generally liked, but had a reputation for eccentricity."
tagline: "British bishop (1863-1936)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/Rev-lord-william-cecil.jpg/330px-Rev-lord-william-cecil.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1863-03-09"
deathDate: "1936-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.44
  momentum:             4.736842105263158
  historical:           4.144349333333333
  currentAttention:     26.31578947368422
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gascoyne-Cecil"
    title: "William Gascoyne-Cecil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_William_Cecil_(bishop)"
    title: "Lord William Cecil (bishop)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cecil_(%C3%A9v%C3%AAque)"
    title: "William Cecil (évêque)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB_(%E8%81%96%E8%81%B7%E8%80%85)"
    title: "ウィリアム・セシル (聖職者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6680022"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations