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Données personnelles Henry Cecil 10th Earl of Exeter 1st Marquess of Exeter 

• Il est né le 14 mars 1754 dans Brussels, Belgium.
• Il est décédé le 1 mai 1804 dans Pembroke House, Privy Gardens, Whitehall, England, il avait 50 ans.
• Un enfant de Hon. Thomas Chambers Cecil et Charlotte Garnier (Gornier)

Famille de Henry Cecil 10th Earl of Exeter 1st Marquess of Exeter

(1) Il avait une relation avec Elizabeth Anne Burrell.

(2) Il avait une relation avec Sarah Hoggins.

Enfant(s):

1. Brownlow Cecil  1795-1867 

(3) Il avait une relation avec Emma Vernon.

Notes par Henry Cecil 10th Earl of Exeter 1st Marquess of Exeter

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Exeter was the son of the Hon. Thomas Chambers Cecil, second son of Brownlow Cecil, 8th Earl of Exeter. Thomas Chambers Cecil led a profligate life, and although for a time an MP he was forced to live abroad in Brussels, where he married Charlotte Garnier, a lady of uncertain origin, said by some to be a Basque dancer.[1] When Henry was born in 1754 he was the heir presumptive to his uncle Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter, and for this reason was sent when still a baby to Burghley House to be brought up.

He attended Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge.[2] In 1774, when still only 20, he was returned as MP for the family controlled borough of Stamford, a seat he held until 1790.[3][4] In 1793 he succeeded his uncle as tenth Earl of Exeter and entered the House of Lords. In February 1801 he was created Marquess of Exeter,[1][4] the first marquessate to be created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. But although Henry Cecil had wide interests, it is not recorded that he ever made much contribution to the House of Commons or the House of Lords.

Henry Cecil married, firstly, Emma Vernon, daughter of Thomas Vernon, of Hanbury Hall, in 1776. Emma was an heiress, and was able to add the considerable income from the Vernon estates in Worcestershire (her father had died in 1771) and elsewhere to her husband's own allowance, but despite having a large income the couple seem to have got into debt. They had one son born in 1777 who died aged two months, but no further children.

In the early years of his marriage Henry devoted his energies to modernising and improving his residence at Hanbury Hall and the estates. An enclosure act for Hanbury was passed in 1781, and exchanges of land were made to consolidate the holdings so that they could be made into more economic farms with better rents.

In 1785 a new curate for Hanbury church, Rev William Sneyd, was appointed, and soon afterwards Henry's wife Emma started an affair with him. She eventually confessed what was happening to her husband in May 1789, pleading to be allowed to live with her lover, but Henry of course resisted this. After much emotional turmoil Henry agreed to his wife having one last meeting with Sneyd in Birmingham, and during that meeting the couple eloped together, and Henry had to return to Hanbury alone.

By this time he was deeply in debt, and decided to abandon Hanbury for good, and instructed his friend the rector, Rev William Burslem, to collect the rents and use them to pay off his debts, while Henry left to live a quiet and simple life under an assumed name.[5] He chose to buy a small holding in the Shropshire village of Great Bolas, and lived there calling himself John Jones. Some time soon after he fell in love with and married in April 1790[6] Sarah, the simple 16 year old daughter of local farmer Thomas Hoggins. As Henry had done nothing about procuring a divorce the marriage was bigamous, a serious offence at the time. Only in 1791 did Henry obtain a divorce by Act of Parliament, after which he and Sarah went through a second marriage ceremony on 3 October 1791 at St. Mildred Bread Street, London (the register records him as "Batchelor" and her as "Spinster"), thus making the union legitimate. In February the following year their first child, Sophia, was born, and in 1793 a son Henry was born, also in Great Bolas, but died soon afterwards.

In December 1793 his uncle died, and Henry inherited the vast Cecil estates, and moved to Burghley House with his new family. Sarah had two more children, Brownlow born in 1795, who was to inherit his father's title and estates, and Thomas born in 1797. But Sarah died after the birth of Thomas, still aged only 23, and in 1800 Henry took as his third wife Elizabeth Anne Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell and former wife of Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton, in 1800. They had no children. Lord Exeter died in May 1804, aged 50, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Brownlow. The Marchioness of Exeter died at Privy Gardens, Whitehall, London, in January 1837, aged 79.[1]

Sarah Hoggins became known as the Cottage Countess, and never seems to have adapted to her role as the mistress of a great household. The episode is recounted in Tennyson's poem of that name, and was investigated by Elisabeth Inglis-Jones in her book The Lord of Burghley and by Andrew Harris for his book The Vernons of Hanbury Hall.

Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter succeeded to the title of 11th Baron of Burghley, co. Northampton [E., 1571] on 26 December 1793.

He succeeded to the title of 10th Earl of Exeter [E., 1605] on 26 December 1793.

He was created 1st Marquess of Exeter [U.K.] on 4 February 1801.

1776 (May 23)--Henry Cecil marries Emma Vernon. [They divorce June 10, 1791]
1791 (Oct. 3)--Henry Cecil marries Sarah Hoggins.

1800 (Aug. 19)--Henry Cecil marries Elizabeth Anne Burrell.

1801 (Feb. 4)--Henry Cecil is created 1st Marquess of Exeter [U.K.].

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