James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
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James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, CB, PC (October 23, 1861 – April 4, 1947) was a British statesman.
The eldest son and heir of the Victorian statesman Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, he was born in London and educated at Eton and at University College, Oxford. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1892, and from 1893 to 1903. He succeeded his father and entered the House of Lords in 1903.
The 4th Marquess was a notable Conservative leader in the House of Lords, and he served in his cousin Arthur Balfour's government as Lord Privy Seal (1903–1905), and later in those of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin as Lord President of the Council (1922–1924). He resigned as leader of the Conservative peers in June 1931 and became one of the most prominent opponents of Indian Home Rule in the Lords, supporting the campaign against the legislation waged in the Commons by Winston Churchill.
He was Lord High Steward for the coronation of George VI in 1937.
In 1887 he married Lady Cicely Gore (the second daughter of the 5th Earl of Arran) and they had four children:
- Lady Beatrice Edith Mildred (1891-?)
- Robert, Viscount Cranborne (1893-1972)
- Lady Mary Alice (1895-1988)
- Lord (Edward Christian) David (1902-1986)
