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Lord Edward Cecil
Lord Edward Herbert (Gascoyne-)Cecil KCMG DSO (12 July 1867 – 13 December 1918) was a distinguished and highly decorated soldier. As colonial administrator in Egypt and advisor to the Liberal government he helped to implement Army reforms.
== A son of Hatfield ==
Lord Edward was the fourth son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and Georgina Charlotte. When he was born his father asked Lord Carnarvon to be a godfather. He was educated at Eton, but did badly in his exams, failing to get into Sandhurst, which his father blamed on the school (because he had been bullied there).〔Roberts, 'Salisbury', p.11-12〕 His family called him 'Nigs', which his mother used when writing to him at boarding-school. When only eleven years old, he wrote a play on The Eastern Question from his father's foreign office papers. The tone of the play was anti-Beaconsfield, showing a resentment for a longevity in office. Written in 1878, at the time of Congress of Berlin, perhaps unaware that Beaconsfield had only three to live, the Prime Minister is personified as Dickens 'Artful Dodger'.〔Lord Edward Cecil Papers Box 1, Royal Archives Victoria (RA VIC) 49/1; edited by Marquis of Zetland 'Letters', vol.1, p.190, RA VIC 50/44〕 A latent racism was characteristic of Cecilian 'clannish' behaviour.〔Roberts, Salisbury, p.198-9〕
Gascoyne-Cecil became a Second Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in 1887. He served for four years in the regiment before being promoted first lieutenant and appointed to the staff of Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley. On the Dongola Expedition in 1896 he served with distinction: mentioned in despatches he was promoted a Brevet Major, 4th Class Medjidie, Khedive' Medal for service in Egypt and Sudan, with two clasps. He was ''aide de camp'' to Lord Kitchener in the Egyptian campaign of 1896, who had a profound influence on his career. "All shall be at home known by the proper people" wrote Lord Edward in his diary. The following day his father Lord Salisbury announced in parliament that Dongola was not the objective, but the conquest of the Sudan, and recapture of Khartoum to avenge the murder of Gordon.
Cecil was appointed a special missionary adviser to King Menelik of Abyssinia in 1897, who was slightly mad, accustomed to eating paper, which eventually killed him. On 18 September 1898 Kitchener's party arrived in five gunboats, with 100 Highlanders, and Colonel Wingate plus lord Edward on the general's staff. They also carried four machine-guns and 2,500 Sudanese troops. Kitchener set up a meeting on 19 September at which they drank whisky and champagne with Frenchman Marchand.〔Roberts, p.704〕 On the Nile Expedition they conquered Darfur and annexed the South of Sudan. The French were not made to return via Abyssinia, but Kitchener's army returned in triumph to a speech at the Mansion House. In Cimiez, south of France that summer an elated Queen congratulated Salisbury. The campaign culminated at the battle of Omdurman he was mentioned in despatches at the battle of Atbara. For his part in the re-capture of Khartoum he was mentioned in despatches and two clasps. Cecil was present at the battle of Omdurman.〔Burke's Peerage & Baronetage (106th ed.) (Salisbury)〕
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