Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Tags: Prime Minister.

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury KG GCVO PC (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903) styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868 was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister serving for a total of over 13 years.

thumbnail

active years end date

1885-06-09, 1886-01-28, 1886-02-06, 1886-07-20, 1892-08-11, 1895-06-22, 1900-11-12, 1902-07-11

active years start date

1885-06-23, 1885-06-24, 1886-01-28, 1886-07-25, 1887-01-14, 1892-08-11, 1895-06-25, 1895-06-29

alma mater

Christ Church Oxford

birth date

1830-02-03

birth place

Hatfield Hertfordshire

child

Robert Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, James Gascoyne-Cecil 4th Marquess of Salisbury, Hugh Cecil 1st Baron Quickswood, Lord Edward Cecil, Lord William Cecil (bishop)

death date

1903-08-22

monarch

Edward VII, Queen Victoria

order in office

Leader of the Opposition, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

party

Conservative Party (UK)

religion

Church of England

spouse

Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil Marchioness of Salisbury

successor

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, William Ewart Gladstone, Arthur Balfour, Archibald Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery