Lord John Joicey-Cecil


Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil was a British Conservative politician.
Joicey-Cecil was the fourth son of William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter, and his wife Lady Georgina Sophia, daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford. Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter and Lord William Cecil were his elder brothers.
He was commissioned an officer in the Grenadier Guards. After resigning from the regular army, he was appointed major in the 4th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment on 17 November 1897. After his elder brother Lord William resigned from his command of the battalion, Lord John was on 25 October 1902 appointed in command and promoted lieutenant-colonel.
Joicey-Cecil was elected to the House of Commons for Stamford in 1906, a seat he held until January 1910 general election. In April 1910, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
Joicey-Cecil married Isabella Maud Joicey in 1896 and assumed the additional surname of Joicey. He died in June 1942, aged 75.