Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
At the 1906 general election, Cecil was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament representing Marylebone East.  He was not elected in 1910, but  In 1911, he won a by-election in Hitchin, Hertfordshire as an Independent Conservative and served as its MP until 1923. In the 1915 coalition government, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.  He was promoted to Assistant Secretary in 1918–19.