painters, Samuel Palmer & Edward Burne-Jones (from the A.W. Mellon Lectures, 1969) The Bodley Head Beerbohm (1970) [editor] Max Beerbohm: Selected Prose (1970) [editor] A Choice of Tennyson's Verse (1971) [editor] The Cecils of Hatfield House: a Portrait of an English Ruling Family (1973) Walter de la Mare (1973) [English Association leaflet] A Victorian Album: Julia Margaret Cameron and her Circle (1975) [with Graham Ovenden] Library Looking-Glass (1975) [anthology] Lady Ottoline's Album (1976) A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978) A Portrait of Charles Lamb (1983) Desmond MacCarthy, the Man and His Writings (1984) [editor] Some Dorset Country Houses (1985) A Choice of Bridges's Verse (1987) [editor] See also List of Gresham Professors of Rhetoric References Other sources Glyer, Diana (2007) The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community. Further reading David Cecil – A Portrait by his Friends Collected And Introduced By Hannah Cranborne (Dovecote Press, 1990) External links 1902 births 1986 deaths David Cecil, Lord Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour British literary critics British biographers Younger sons of marquesses People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford Inklings Professors of Gresham College James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients 20th-century biographers