Nigel Cecil

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Rear Admiral Sir (Oswald) Nigel Amherst Cecil KBE CB (born 11 November 1925) is a retired naval officer.

Cecil is a paternal grandson of Lord William Cecil and the 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney and a maternal grandson of the 1st Baron Cornwallis. He was educated at Ludgrove and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and rose to the rank of Commander in 1959.

From 1961–63, Cecil commanded HMS Corunna in the Mediterranean and then HMS Royal Arthur from 1963–65. In 1966, he was promoted to the rank of Captain and returned to Dartmouth to command a training squadron from 1969–71. Cecil was promoted once again in 1971 to Commodore and was sent to South Africa as a Naval attaché to Cape Town until 1973. He was then a director of the Naval Operational Requirements from 1973–75 and was afterwards promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed a Naval aide-de-camp to The Queen.

In 1975, he became the NATO Commander of the South East Mediterranean and Flag Officer of Malta. He left the island with the last of the British Forces in 1979 and on his return home, was knighted and appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, a post he held for five years.

Cecil has long since been retired and currently lives with his wife of over forty years, on the Isle of Wight.

Governors and Lieutenant Governors of the Isle of Man
Christian, Stanley N, Stanley C, Mawdesley, Stanley C, Horne, Lloyd, Horton, 2nd Duke of Atholl, Lindsey, Cochrane, Wood, 4th Duke of Atholl, Hope, Dawson, Shaw, Murray, Smelt, Ready, Hope, Connat-Pigott, Loch, Walpole, Ridgeway, Henniker-Major, Somerset, Fry, Hill, Butler, Granville, Bromet, Dundas, Garvey, Stallard, Paul, Cecil, New, Jones, Daunt, MacFadyen, Haddacks