Biography of Salisbury, 3d Marquess of
Name: Salisbury, 3d Marquess of
Birth Date: February 3, 1830
Death Date: August 22, 1903
Place of Birth: Hatfield, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: prime minister, diplomat
Salisbury, 3d Marquess of
The English statesman and diplomat Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903), was prime minister of Great Britain in 1885-1886, 1886-1892, and 1895-1902. His life spanned the period of England's greatest affluence and power.Lord Robert Cecil was born at Hatfield on Feb. 3, 1830, the second son of James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2d Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council, and of his wife, Frances Gascoyne, an heiress. Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a fourthclass in mathematics, he was elected in 1853 to a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and in the same year was elected unopposed to the House of Commons for Stamford.In July 1857 Cecil married Georgina Alderson, a woman of great ability. His father, however, objected to the marriage and cut off funds, so Cecil became partly dependent on his pen. He wrote for the Standard and the Saturday …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…until 1899, when they abandoned all designs on the Sudan. In 1899 the Czar's rescript led to the Hague Conference.In 1900, after Salisbury had refused foreign mediation, the largest army ever assembled by England set off to fight the Boers. In 1902 Salisbury negotiated the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, and on May 31 peace was signed with the Boers. In July, Salisbury resigned, and he died on Aug. 22, 1903. Further Reading Salisbury's life is recounted in Samuel Henry Jeyes, Life and Times of the Marquis of Salisbury (4 vols., 1895-1896), and in Aubrey Leo Kennedy, Salisbury, 1830-1903: Portrait of a Statesman (1953). Aspects of his career are covered in Rose L. Greaves, Persia and the Defense of India, 1884-1892: A Study in the Foreign Policy of the Third Marquis of Salisbury (1959); J. A. S. Grenville, Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century (1964); Cedric J. Lowe, Salisbury and the Mediterranean, 1886-1896 (1965); and Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, The Political Thought of Lord Salisbury, 1854-1868 (1967).
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