Constituency : North Nottinghamshire 1880-85, Mansfield 1885-92
Cecil captured one of the North Nottinghamshire seats from the Tories , coming top of the poll.
Cecil was a great nephew of the Tory prime minister Lord Liverpool and younger brother of Francis Foljambe the MP for East Retford. He was a Whig.
Cecil supported the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act.
In December 1889 he was wintering in Pau in southern France where he took bird-watching walks with the young Franklin D Roosevelt.
In 1893 Cecil was given a peerage as Baron Hawkesbury. In 1894 he became a whip for Rosebery.
In 1901 Cecil served on the Royal Commission for Historical Manuscripts.
In 1905 Campbell-Bannerman made him Lord Steward of the Household and upgraded his peerage to Earl of Liverpool.
He died in 1907 aged 60 after a long and painful illness.
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