In the 1920s many notable photographers were based in Dover Street including Paul Tanqueray, Hugh Cecil and Alexander Bassano.
At the Cambridge Photographic Society, he exhibited a number of landscapes, some of which won medals.
Cecil dissented from the beginning from Joseph Chamberlain's policy of tariff reform, pleading in Parliament against any lowering of the idea of empire into that of a "gigantic profit-sharing business."
Hugh Masekela | Cecil B. DeMille | Hugh Jackman | Hugh Grant | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Hugh Laurie | Hugh Hefner | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Hugh | Cecil Rhodes | Hugh O'Brian | Cecil Taylor | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | William Cecil | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland | Cecil Sharp | Cecil Beaton | Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury | Hugh Martin | Hugh Dennis | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Cecil | Hugh Walpole | Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone | Hugh de Lacy | St Hugh's College, Oxford | Robert Cecil | Hugh Wheeler | Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard |
The Right Reverend Lord William Cecil, Lord Cecil of Chelwood and Lord Quickswood were his younger brothers and Prime Minister Arthur Balfour his first cousin.
This association with the British scholars, Peter Liddle, Hugh Cecil, and Ian Whitehead, resulted in the publication of a number of co-authored books.