In , Cornelia and John divorced. She then fell off the public radar, but she never returned to the estate again. How does one simply walk away from the magnificent house and gardens created by her father and leave it in the hands of her estranged spouse? Cecil hailed from the English town of Norfolk. He focused on history and international law at the New College of Oxford University and ultimately became a member of the British Diplomatic Corps.
It was in Washington where he met Cornelia and began a romance with her. Or maybe she was searching for the type of happiness that money cannot buy. Or maybe she was just bored.
Cecil taking over the cows and employees the usual outlet for her energy was abruptly cut off. After a time in New York City, she traveled to Europe and reportedly engaged in a lengthy, complicated romance with a Swiss artist named Guy Baer. He was 58 and she was 49 when they tied the knot on October 13, , in a brief ceremony at the Kensington registry office in London, with only four witnesses present. Their entry into married life was a stark contrast to her all-the-frills first wedding to John Cecil.
They reportedly lived a quiet life—she went by Mary—until his death on February 14, This time, she had fallen for a younger man. She was 26 years his senior. She said her parents furthered their children's sense of service by having them work in the Estate's calf barns and the Biltmore Dairy Farms bottling plant.
Her brothers had to bale hay. This just happened to be what we were born into. As children, she said, their dad would take all six siblings skiing at Cataloochee every weekend. In , Jack Cecil returned to work alongside his father, serving in various capacities until being named President and CEO of Biltmore Farms in The Cecils sold the dairy operations in , with Biltmore Farms becoming a multi-faceted community development company focusing on commercial and retail properties, residential communities, home building and hotels.
After the sale, George Cecil's love of agriculture and rural Western North Carolina never faded, his family said, and he co-founded the Western North Carolina Communities organization in Ward wrote in a dedication to Cecil, which he shared with the Citizen Times.
More: How will Biltmore Estate handle the transition to new owners? Among the organizational accomplishments over the 71 years is an effective rural community development program, which lifted up a total of communities through what Ward called "self-help programs to improve community life. On Aug. Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Troxler. Ward said Cecil directly impacted the lives of hundreds of college freshmen with scholarship funds.
Ward said he presented to Cecil an autographed prototype of the book in recent weeks. At the age of 7 George Cecil and his younger brother, William, moved to Europe, living between England and Switzerland. Cecil, who spoke four languages, was known for his curiosity about the world, his family said in his obituary , his love for history and facts, appreciation of community and friends, humility, and recognition for the needs of others and love of family.
When not in their garden, he and Nancy traveled the world together, often with their six children, and they made countless return trips to England and Switzerland reuniting with family and friends. Cecil is survived by his six children and their spouses, as well as sixteen grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
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