William Cecil, first baron Burghley

(1520-1598)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598 NRA: Cecil, William (1520-1598) 1st Baron Burghley, statesman DNB: Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister LBT ID: LdBurgh1 VIAF ID: 121751642 LOC ID: n50032698	B/BAP: 1520-09-18 DIED: 1598-08-04
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English statesman who was the chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth.
REFERENCES TO William Cecil, first baron Burghley: Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 15 August 1798 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 1 February 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Isaac D’Israeli to John Murray, 2 August 1810 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Terrot, Charles Hughes, 1790-1872, Common Sense: a Poem (Edinburgh: David Brown, 1819) Verse 2: p. 11a p. 11a Leigh Hunt to William Hazlitt; 22 September 1819 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE ELDER WORTHIES. Verse 2: p. 34a p. 34a THE YOUNG SPIRITS. Verse 2: p. 40c p. 40c Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 3 May 1822 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 21 Chapter VIII 1822 Found 1: ¶ 26 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VIII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (October 1847) 227-40 Found 1: ¶ 22 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. V. 1797 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 11 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVI 1818 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VIII. 1818-19. Found 1: ¶ 4 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter VIII. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 10: 1821-24 Found 1: ¶ 33 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. II: 1822 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806