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Marquess of Salisbury is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1789 for the 7th Earl of Salisbury . [1] Most of the holders of the title have been prominent in British political life over the last two centuries, particularly the 3rd Marquess , who served three times as Prime Minister in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Lord Salisbury was the third son of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, a minor Conservative politician. In 1857, he defied his father, who wanted him to marry a rich heiress to protect the family's lands.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury was a Conservative political leader who was a three-time prime minister (1885–86, 1886–92, 1895–1902) and four-time foreign secretary (1878, 1885–86, 1886–92, 1895–1900), who presided over a wide expansion of Great Britain’s colonial.
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil, KG, KCVO, PC, DL (born 30 September 1946) is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons, and in the 1990s he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne.
Feb 3, 2012 · Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Conservative 1885 to 1886, 1886 to 1892, 1895 to 1902. “English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic...
About The Marquess of Salisbury. Lord Salisbury was likely the most conservative Prime Minister in British history and was also the Conservative Party’s longest serving Prime Minister. He was a shrewd politician who often opposed change, but reconciled himself to the expansion of the franchise and won many elections.
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The marriage of the 4th Earl in 1683 to Frances Bennett of Beachampton (Buckinghamshire) led to the inheritance of estates in Buckinghamshire, Nottinghamshire and the North Riding of Yorkshire, but...
