NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 10

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

AWARD TO VISCOUNT CECIL

(Received November 19, 2.15 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, November 18. The Nobel Peace Prize of approximately £8000 has been awarded to Viscount Cecil of Chelwood.

Lord Robert Cecil is the third son of the third Marquess of Salisbury, who became the head of the Conservative Party on the death of Lord Beaconsfield, and who was thrice Prime Minister of England. He is in the line of succession from William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, Secretary of State under Queen Elizabeth. He was born on September 14, 1864, and was educated at Eton, and at University College, Oxford. From 1886 to 1888 he was private cecretary to his father. He was called to the Bar in 1887, arid took silk in 1900. He married, in 1889, Lady Eleanor Lambton, a daughter of the second Earl of Durham. Until -1923, when he was raised to the Peerage as Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, his title of Lord was a courtesy one, enjoyed by, the sons of peers. Such ititles are merely honorary ones, and, for all legal purposes, the bearers are regarded as commoners. ' Like members of his family before him not entitled to a seat in the House of Lords, Lord Robert was elected to the House .of Commons, representing East Marylebone in the Conservative interests from 1906 to 1910. During 1915-1916 he was Parliamentary Secretary, for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Blockade from 1916 to 1918, appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1918, and was with the British delegation when the Peace Treaty was signed in Paris in 1919. He entered Mr. Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet in 1923 as Lord Privy Seal, and from 1924, in which year he was awarded the Wilson Peace Prize of £5000, to 1927, when he resigned, he occupied the position of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. From 1924 to 1927 he-was Rector of the University of Aberdeen, and since 1918 has been Chancellor of the University of Birmingham. He is President of the British League of Nations Union and president of the National Association of Building Societies. He has received honorary degrees from the universities of four countries.