Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley

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Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley, GBE, PC (1865–1 April 1941) was a British, Conservative Party politician.

Cecil was the eldest son of Lord Eustace Cecil (himself a son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury) and was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was Private Secretary from 1891-92, to the Prime Minister, his uncle, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, during the latter's second term and during his third term from 1895-1902. On 16 February 1898, Cecil had married Hon. Alicia Amherst (a daughter of the 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney) and they had three children: Robert William Evelyn, later 2nd Baron Rockley (1901-1976), Margaret Gertrude (d. 1962) and Maud Katharine Alicia (d. 1981).

Cecil has served as a MP from 1898-1929 and was appointed a GBE in 1922 and raised to the Peerage in 1934 as Baron Rockley, of Lytchett Heath, County Dorset.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Abel Smith	Member for Hertford 1898–1900	Succeeded by Abel Henry Smith
Preceded by George Grice-Hutchinson	Member for Aston Manor 1900–1918	Succeeded by Constituency renamed
Preceded by Constituency renamed	Member for Birmingham Aston 1918–1929	Succeeded by John Strachey
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baron Rockley 1934–1941	Succeeded by Robert Cecil