Charles Cecil

Charles Cecil MBE (born 11 August 1962) is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software. Cecil was brought to the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was still very young, but was evacuated at two years after Mobutu Sese Seko's coup d'état. He was then educated at Bedales School in Hampshire, England. In 1980 he began his studies in Engineering Manufacture and Management at Manchester University, where he met student Richard Turner who invited him to write some text adventures for Artic Computing. After completing his degree in 1985 he decided to continue his career in game development and became director of Artic. In the following year he established Paragon Programming, a game development company working with British publisher U.S. Gold. In 1987 he moved into publishing as software development manager for U.S. Gold. One year later he was approached by Activision and was offered the position of manager of their European development studio.

Charles Cecil (bishop)

Charles Cecil (died 29 May 1737) was the Bishop of Bristol before being translated as the Bishop of Bangor in 1734 until his death in 1737.

Cecil was the only surviving son of the Hon. Robert Cecil MP and grandson of Lady Margaret née Manners. Cecil's sister, Margaret, married Sir Robert Brown MP who was created a baronet.

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