Person of the Month

Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley was the longest-serving and most successful politician of the Tudor age. First as Privy Councillor to Edward VI, and then as Elizabeth I’s Secretary and Treasurer, he profoundly influenced the religion and politics of the second half of the sixteenth century. Scourge of the Catholics, and implacable enemy of Mary, Queen of Scots, his life was devoted to fulfilling his vision of a Protestant nation.