Jonathan Cecil

Jonathan Hugh Gascoyne-Cecil (22 February 1939 – 22 September 2011), known as Jonathan Cecil, was an English actor. Early life Cecil was born on 22 February 1939, in Westminster, the son of Lord David Cecil and the grandson of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury. His other grandfather was the literary critic Sir Desmond MacCarthy. He was the great-grandson of the Conservative Prime Minister, the Marquess of Salisbury. Brought up in Oxford, where his father was Goldsmith Professor of English, Cecil was educated at Eton, where he played small parts in school plays, and at New College, Oxford, where he read modern languages, specialising in French, and continued with amateur acting in the Oxford University Dramatic Society. At Oxford, his friends included Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. In a production of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, he played a lunatic called Troubadour and a woman who sells pigs. Of his early acting at Oxford, Cecil said