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Where did William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley live?

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598). Map of the 2 houses connected with William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley: homes they lived in and house museums named after them.

Houses connected with William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

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2 houses on this map are linked to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley in Wikidata: Burghley House (St Martin's Without, England); Theobalds House (Broxbourne, England).

Links between people and houses come from Wikidata (residence, P551, or the person a house museum is named after). Wikidata does not record dates for most residences, so houses are listed by how well known they are, not in date order.

About William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, A. F. Pollard wrote, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England." He was raised to the peerage as Baron Burghley in February 1571.

From the Wikipedia article “William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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