Talk:Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Salisbury was offered, but refused - possible on the grounds of the cost of maintaining that style, a dukedom by QV but I can't find a citation at the moment.Alci12 11:31, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

On 31st Jan 1886 he turned down a dukedom on the grounds of cost and refused another dukedom offer again in 1892. (Roberts, Salisbury, p. 374 + p. 579.)--Johnbull 12:59, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I have edited that in, if you have his biog perhaps you can add some flavour as iirc he was somewhat unusual spending much of his time even as PM testing chemicals and 'experimenting' which resulted in considerable damage to his home and not a little risk to his heath and safety.Alci12 14:02, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Spelling of Gascoyne

Could someone please confirm the spelling of Gascoyne? I think it should be Gascoigne (the name of a big family that the Cecil's married into). If correct the entire line of Salisbury Wikipedia entries may need to be changed.

(For interest, Salisbury Road intersects Gascoigne Street, in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.)

Can anyone explain to me the exact relationship between Brownlow Cecil (b.1725 d.1793, 9th Earl of Exeter) and Sir Robert Cecil (1st Earl of Salisbury)?

I also vaguely recall the Viscount Wimbledon title being associated with the Cecil family. However, I don’t see it mentioned anywhere. At the Wimbledon parish church I recall seeing a plaque dedicated to the marriage of Sir Christopher Wray, bt. (Lord Chief Justice of England, who sentenced Queen Mary of Scots to death) who married Albinia Cecil.

The Cecil family, I believe, is traceable to a famous Roman family of the same name.

- Eltharian Talk 10 September 2006

Name is correct see burkes or any other peerage source. The 1st earl of Salisbury and the 1st earl of Exeter were half-brothers. Alci12 15:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] House of Lords

Salisbury was not the last Prime Minister in the House of Lords. Please see the article on Alec Douglas-Home, who held the position of Prime Minister while sitting in the House of Lords for a short period in 1963. Christina Kaye 13:05, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Estate

Can anyone explain the discrepancy that Salisbury was worth over six millon in 1900, but three years later his estate was valued at 310,000.Natalie West 19:41, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

There are several fascinating points of connection between Salisbury, Cecil Rhodes, Lord Milner, and Arthur Balfour. Upon his death in 1902, but due to Rhodes' revision of his will in 1899 replacing W. T. Stead and Lord Rothschild with a group of seven including Milner and Rothschild's son-in-law, Rhodes' trust essentially passed to Milner's discretionary control to facilitate Rhodes-Milner Round Table objectives. From Carroll Quigley's perspective, when Salisbury resigned as Prime Minister (also in 1902), and was subsequently succeeded by Balfour, the 'Cecil Bloc' was placed at Milner's prerogative. Hmmm . . . £5.7 million, where oh where could it be?? - gospelnous 00:05, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Attlee's opinion of Salisbury

That quote by Attlee is fascinating, and perhaps demands some elaboration, given the extent to which the ideology of the two differed. john k 16:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Beyond that, it'd be nice if we had a decent article. This article is about 1/8 as long as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry. john k 00:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Attlee (born 1880s) was a Tory as a young man, which explains it a little.--User:171.192.0.10

The full quote from Roberts' Salisbury is:

Shortly before he died, Clement Attlee was invited to Chequers by Harold Wilson and asked whom he thought the best Prime Minister of his lifetime. Without hesitation Attlee replied 'Salisbury'.

Roberts gets this from Wilson's The Governance of Britain (1976), p. 31n.--Johnbull 15:14, 29 July 2007 (UTC)