Marquess Robert Arthur James GASCOYNE-CECIL

1893 - 1972  (78 years)

• Name	Robert Arthur James GASCOYNE-CECIL
  Prefix	Marquess
  Born	27 Aug 1893	Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	5th Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., P.C.
  Died	23 Feb 1972	England
  Person ID	I10251	Main
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Marquess James Edward Hubert GASCOYNE-CECIL,   b. 23 Oct 1861, Park Crecent, St Marylebone, London, England ,   d. 4 Apr 1947, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Lady Cecily Alice GORE,   b. 1867,   d. 5 Feb 1955  (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F3514	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Vere CAVENDISH,   b. 22 Jan 1897, England ,   d. 1982, England  (Age 84 years)
  Children	+ 1. Marquess Robert Edward Peter GASCOYNE-CECIL,   b. 24 Oct 1916,   d. 11 Jul 2003  (Age 86 years)   2. Michael Charles James GASCOYNE-CECIL,   b. 21 Oct 1918,   d. 27 Oct 1934  (Age 16 years)   3. Richard Hugh Vere GASCOYNE-CECIL,   b. 21 Jan 1924,   d. 12 Aug 1944  (Age 20 years)
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F3515	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 23 Feb 1972 - England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Elected to the House of Commons in 1929, and then called up to the House of Lords by a writ of 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. He was known as a hardline imperialist. In 1952, as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, he tried to make permanent the exile of Seretse Khama, kgosi of the Bamangwato people in Bechuanaland, for marrying a white British woman. During the 1960s, Lord Salisbury continued to be a staunch defender of the white-dominated governments in South Africa and in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He was also a fierce opponent of liberal-left attempts to reform the House of Lords, yet he created what is known as the Salisbury Convention. In 1961 he became the first president of the Conservative Monday Club, a post he held until his death. 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. They had three sons, of whom only the eldest survived the Second World War.