Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1923
Number:6 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1864
Year, Death:1958
Profession:Jurist and member of the British parliament (House of Commons).
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1937
 
Motivation:Lord Cecil was one of the principal drafters of the League of Nations Covenant (1919). He contributed greatly to the establishment of the League's institutions and he took a leading role in the its activities. Already in 1916 he had begun to draw up an international peacekeeping agreement, and in 1919, when he attended the Paris Peace Conference, his ideas proved generally compatible with those of President Woodrow Wilson.
 
Nominator:
Name:Fridtjof Nansen
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1861
Year, Death:1930
Profession:Arctic explorer, professor of oceanography, and humanitarian
University:Kristiania University
City:Kristiania (now Oslo)
Country:NORWAY (NO)