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Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil, Marquis of
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Statesman, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; as Lord Cecil, represented Stamford in Parliament in 1853; was, as Lord Cranborne, Secretary for India in 1866 under Lord Derby; entered the House of Lords as Lord Salisbury in 1867, and distinguished himself as foremost in debate; became Secretary for India under Disraeli in 1874, and Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1881, in which latter year he, on the death of Beaconsfield, became leader of the Conservative party; after this he was three times raised to the Premiership, the last time on Lord Roseberys retirement in 1890, by coalition with the Liberal Unionists (q. v .); was at one time a contributor to the Saturday Review , and is interested in scientific pursuits, chemistry in particular; b . 1830.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil, Marquis of'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/salisbury-robert-arthur-talbot-gascoigne-cecil-marquis-of.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
