Lady Florence Mary (Bootle-Wilbraham) Cecil

Born in 1863, Lady Florence Mary Cecil was the daughter of the 1st Earl of Lathom and later became the wife of Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil. Records from the National Portrait Gallery identify her as Lady Florence Mary Cecil, née Bootle-Wilbraham, and give her lifespan as 1863–1944.

She is known in the public-domain record chiefly for Changing China, a book credited to William Gascoyne-Cecil and Lady Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham Cecil. Project Gutenberg describes her as assisting in the work, and library records list her as a named author alongside her husband.

Changing China reflects an early-1900s effort to explain major political, social, and religious change in China for English-speaking readers. Read today, it offers both a period view of China and a glimpse of the interests that shaped British religious and travel writing in that era.