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Oswald Nigel
Amherst Cecil was born 11 November 1925, to Commander Hon. Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil (1893–1963) and Hon. Yvonne Cornwallis (1896–1983). Cecil is a paternal grandson of
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Robert
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Cecil, who lived with his wife of over fifty-five years, on the
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from 1963–65. In 1966, he was promoted to the rank of
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