Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil (April 9, 1902 – January 1, 1986), was an English aristocrat, literary scholar, biographer and academic. His title was a courtesy title: he was a younger son of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A courtesy title is a form of address in the British peerage system used for wives, children, and other close relatives of a peer. ... James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (October 23, 1861 - April 4, 1947) was the eldest son and heir of the Victorian statesman Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. ...

He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1948 to 1970. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-charging secondary school) for boys located in Eton, Berkshire near Windsor in England, located about a mile north of Windsor Castle. ... Christ Church, Oxford - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

He married Rachel MacCarthy, daughter of Desmond MacCarthy. Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1878-1952) was an English critic, a member of the Bloomsbury group. MacCarthy was born in Plymouth, England, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. ...

Works

• The Stricken Deer or The Life of Cowper (1929)
• Sir Walter Scott: The Raven Miscellany (1933)
• Early Victorian novelists : essays in revaluation (1934)
• Jane Austen (1936)
• The Young Melbourne and the Story of his Marriage with Caroline Lamb (1939)
• The English Poets (1941)
• Oxford Book Of Christian Verse (1941) editor
• Men of the R.A.F.(1942) with Sir William Rothenstein
• Hardy the Novelist, an Essay in Criticism (1942) Clark Lectures,
• Antony and Cleopatra, the fourth W.P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 4th May, 1943 (1944)
• Poetry of Thomas Gray (1945) Warton Lecture
• Two Quiet Lives (1948) Dorothy Osborne and.Thomas Gray
• Poets & story-tellers (1949) essays
• Reading as one of the fine arts (1949) inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 28 May 1949
• Lord M, or the Later Life of Lord Melbourne (1954)
• Walter Pater - the Scholar Artist (1955) Rede Lecture
• Augustus John. Fifty-two Drawings (1957)
• The Fine Art of Reading and other literary studies (1957)
• Modern Verse in English 1900-1950 (1958) editor with Allen Tate
• Max (1964) biography of Max Beerbohm
• The Bodley Head Beerbohm (1970) editor
• Visionary and dreamer : two poetic painters : Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones (1969)
• A Choice of Tennyson's verse (1971) editor
• The Cecils of Hatfield House: A Portrait of an English Ruling Family (1973)
• Walter De La Mare (1973) English Association leaflet
• A Victorian Album. Julia Margaret Cameron and her Circle (1975) with Graham Ovenden
• Library Looking-Glass (1975) anthology
• Lady Ottoline 's Album (1976)
• A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978)
• A portrait of Charles Lamb (1983)
• Desmond Maccarthy, the Man and His Writings (1984) editor
• Some Dorset Country Houses (1985)