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  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salisbury's expertise was in foreign affairs, and uncharacteristically, for most of his time as Prime Minister he served not as First Lord of the Treasury, the traditional position held by the Prime Minister, but as Foreign Secretary.
Salisbury was the last peer to serve as Prime Minister, with the brief exception of the 14th Earl of Home who renounced his peerage within a few days of being appointed.
Salisbury was the third son of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, a minor Tory politician.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, PC (born September 30, 1946), was a Conservative politician and Leader of the House of Lords, under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne.
The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903) had been a great late Victorian Prime Minister; the 4th Marquess of Salisbury (1861-1947) had been Tory Leader of the House of Lords; the 5th Marquess of Salisbury (1893-1972) had been also a leading Conservative politician in the House of Lords.
The Marquesses of Salisbury were descended from the 1st Marquess, a courtier and favorite of King George III of the United Kingdom, who was himself a descendant of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and one of the men who brought about the accession of King James I of England.
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 Robert Cecil: Marquis of Salisbury
Robert Cecil, son of the 2nd Marquis of Salisbury, was born at Hatfield House in 1830.
On the death of Benjamin Disraeli in 1878 the Marquis of Salisbury became leader of the Conservative Party.
Salisbury supported the policies that led to the Boer War (1899-1902).
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 EARLS OF SALISBURY - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS OF SALISBURY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The title of earl of Salisbury was first created about 1149, when it was conferred on Patrick de Salisbury (sometimes from an early date called in error Patrick Devereux), a descendant of Edward de Salisbury, mentioned in Domesday as vicecomes of Wiltshire.
His granddaughter Isabella became countess of Salisbury suo jure on the death of her father, William the 2nd earl, without male heirs, in 1196, and the title was assumed by her husband, William de Longespe (d.
The earldom of Salisbury was granted in 1337 by Edward III.
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 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His father the 6th Marquess succeeded his father, the 5th Marquess of Salisbury (1893-1972), and generally eschewed a political career unlike his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.
The Salisbury family is very wealthy, with land in Dorset, Hertfordshire, and in London; and with heirlooms at Hatfield House.
The Marquess of Salisbury's heir is his elder son the Honourable Robert Edward "Ned" William Gascoyne-Cecil, called Viscount Cranborne (b.
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 Marquess of Salisbury
Salisbury entered the Commons in 1853 at the age of 23, as MP for Stamford.
Salisbury was the last peer to serve as PM, with the brief exception of the 14th Earl of Home who renounced his peerage within a few days of being appointed.
In 1857 Salisbury married Georgina Caroline Alderson, the daughter of a judge.
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 Telegraph | News | The Marquess of Salisbury
The 6th Marquess of Salisbury, who died yesterday aged 86, was an intelligent man of decided views; but he early confounded his family's expectations that he would make a prominent place for himself in politics.
Salisbury was a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset from 1974, and president of the Monday Club from 1974 to 1981.
The heir to the marquessate is Viscount Cranborne, the former Leader of the Lords, who was born in 1946.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Nicknamed "Bobbety", the 5th Marquess was elected to the House of Commons in 1929, and then called up to the House of Lords by a writ in acceleration in 1941, before he succeeded his father as Marquess of Salisbury in 1947.
Lord Salisbury was a prominent Tory politician in the 1940s and 1950s, serving in the governments of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Harold Macmillan.
Lord Salisbury was married to Elizabeth Vere Cavendish, a cousin of the 10th Duke of Devonshire and a great-granddaughter of the 7th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, herself a granddaughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
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 Libertarian Heritage No. 20
The 15th Earl of Derby assumed that Salisbury's "eager and almost violent" support for the drinks trade in 1874 was because teetotallers were "for the most part dissenters or freethinkers", and it was true that in those areas of Wales where nonconformism was strongest, the Temperance movement most threatened the drinks trade.
Lady Salisbury also believed in alcohol's medicinal properties; she would administer a medication to elderly tenants at Hatfield made up of the whole fam-ily's left-over medicines all mixed together in a jug, added to an equal measure of her husband's port.
Salisbury, who was himself a prodigious tea-drinker but who also appreciated good wine, was opposed to the Sunday closing of public houses in Cornwall, as "tending to restrict the liberty of the subject".
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 Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquess of
Salisbury (who succeeded to his father's title in 1868) returned to the India Office in 1874 and in 1878 became Disraeli's foreign secretary.
Salisbury avoided alignments in European affairs, maintaining the policy of what was later called “splendid isolation.” Colonial affairs, however, brought difficulties with some of the European powers.
Salisbury conciliated the United States at the time of the Venezuela Boundary Dispute, in the Spanish-American War, and in the Panama negotiations.
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 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to ...
Salisbury was an imperialist: he believed a phase of European, preferably British, rule indispensable for the advancement of the “backward” races and had no hesitation in imposing this rule by force, as he did in the Sudan (1896–99).
Salisbury was the last aristocratic statesman to head a British government while in the House of Lords and not the elected Commons.
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of, Earl Of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, Baron Cecil Of Essendon.
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 Guardian | The Marquess of Salisbury
The sixth Marquess of Salisbury, who has died aged 86, strikingly lacked the gene of political manipulation that has marked out the Cecils for over four centuries.
Salisbury was equally unlike his own son, tagged Viscount Cranborne until his father's death, who arrogated to himself the right to make a deal with Tony Blair and Lord Irvine to cull nine-tenths of the hereditaries, without bothering to consult the then Tory leader William Hague.
Somewhat shy, the marquess prized his privacy, and thus was not suited to the hurly-burly of political life.
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 Salisbury Hotel Ny
It is the main town in the Salisbury district.
Bernard's teaching was distinguished partly by its pronounced Platonic tendency, partly by the stress laid upon literary study of the greater Latin writers; and the influence of the latter feature is noticeable in all John of Salisbury's works.
Salisbury University (Salisbury State University prior to 2001) is a nationally accredited, four-year comprehensive public university located in the city of Salisbury, Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula.
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers
Salisbury began his career in politics in 1853 when he entered the House of Commons.
He succeeded to his titled, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, in 1868.
After Disraeli died in 1881, Salisbury became Conservative leader and in June of 1885 he was prime minister.
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 Marquess of Salisbury - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Most of the holders of the title have been prominent in British political life over the last two centuries, particularly Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who served three times as prime minister in the late 19th and early twentieth century.
The marquesses of Salisbury descend from Queen Elizabeth I's chief advisor, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, through his second son, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, a close advisor to James I.
The Marquess of Salisbury holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, and Baron Cecil of Essendon.
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 GENUKI - Hatfield
The Marquess of Salisbury is lord of the manor, courts leet and baron are held under him occasionally, and the county magistrates hold petty sessions here for the division.
In the sepulchral chapel of the Salisbury family, on the north side of the chancel, is a fine marble monument to Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury, and lord high treasurer under James I; here likewise were interred, December 20th, 1835, the mutilated remains of the Right Hon.
The benefice is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy of Totteridge attached, in the patronage of the Marquess of Salisbury; the present rector of Hatfield is the Rev. F.
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 Lord Privy Seal
John Sheeffield, Marquess of Normanby, Duke of Buckinghamshire and Normanby (1703) 1702 - 1705
Thomas Wharton, Earl Wharton, Marquess of Wharton (1715) 1714 - 1715
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1900 - 1902
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 Leader of the House of Lords
However, it may have been used as early as 1689, applied to George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, when he was Speaker of the House of Lords during the Convention Parliament of that year.
In some coalition governments, it was held by the party leader who was not Prime Minister (under Lord Aberdeen, for instance, it was Lord John Russell, leader of the Whigs, who led business in the Commons).
After the end of Salisbury's last government, in 1902, the position clearly exists in its own right as a member of the cabinet.
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 MSN Encarta - Salisbury
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of (1830-1903), British statesman, noted for his achievements in foreign affairs,...
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury [10 Downing Street]
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 The Salisbury Review, Autumn 2002
The Salisbury Review, now twenty years old, seeks to convey the ideas and concerns of genuine conservatism and carries articles on all aspects of public life, social policy and the arts.
It was an initiative taken by the Salisbury Group, a small group of old-fashioned Tories informally chaired by the Marquess of Salisbury, which had been set up in 1976, dedicated to the political vision of the Third Marquess, who had famously declared that good government consisted in doing as little as possible.
They had held informal meetings and published pamphlets but needed a regular publication to articulate a tradition of social thinking which was much older than the Thatcher revival of the seventies, which they thought overemphasized the importance of economic policy.
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 Marquis of Salisbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lord Salisbury was born in 1946 and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
He succeeded to the title on the death of his father, the 6th Marquess, in 2003.
The 7th Marquess of Salisbury opening the phase two extension on the 13th June 2005.
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 630. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903). Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of ...
The Government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall those States simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere.
Lord Salisbury was objecting to U.S. Secretary of State Richard Olney’s interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine in Venezuela’s boundary dispute with Great Britain.
This interpretation, which maintained U.S. right to intervene in international disputes in the Western Hemisphere, is known as the Olney Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
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 Lord Salisbury's World - Cambridge University Press
Lord Salisbury (1830—1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention.
This important new study moves away from conventional biography and presents an original portrait of the mental world inhabited by late-Victorian Conservatives at the time when their world-view was coming under severe strain.
At the centre of the picture is the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, but Lord Salisbury’s World does not simply tell the story of his life and politics.
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 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Marquess of Salisbury exalted to the R.A. degree in Supreme Grand Chapter.
Marquess of Salisbury installed as Provincial Grand Master of Hertfordshire, in Shire Hall, Hertford, on 7th November.
By Patent dated July 1st 1831 James Gascoyne-Cecil, Second Marquess of Salisbury was appointed to succeed Harvey and was installed on 12th November 1833 at the Shire Hall, Hertford.
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 SALISBURY London WC2 - PUBS.COM London Pub Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was built as a restaurant in the early 1890's, on the site of a pub called the Salisbury Stores.
Then in 1898 it was converted into a pub and adopted the name of the pub it replaced, evident by the double 'S' etched into the pub's windows.
The old gentleman on the pub sign is the Marquess of Salisbury, four times Prime Minister from 1885 to 1901.
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 Additional Reading (from Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Salisbury Minor -- Aug. 11, 1930   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 68-year-old Conservative Leader of the House of Lords, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, co-heir to the Barony of Ogle, started from a daydream just as Lord Parmoor was saying:
James Edward etc. Lord Salisbury sat up abruptly, raised his gleaming silk hat, bowed amiably to his colleagues.
*Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, was the present Lord Salisbury's father.
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 Arthur Balfour
Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the House of Commons in 1874 as the Conservative MP for Hertford.
In 1878 Balfour became private secretary to his uncle, the Marquess of Salisbury, who was Foreign Secretary in the Conservative government headed by Benjamin Disraeli.
The Marquess of Salisbury, who was now Prime Minister, appointed him as his Secretary for Scotland.
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