Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury

Georgina Charlotte Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury, VA, CI (1827 – 20 November 1899) was the wife of British statesman, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.

Lady Salisbury was born in Paddington, the daughter of Sir Edward Alderson, a judge and a Baron of the Exchequer. On 11 July 1857, she married Lord Robert Cecil (later 3rd Marquess of Salisbury), a younger son of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (despite the disapproval of the latter), and they had eight children:

Lady Beatrix Maud Gascoyne-Cecil (11 April 1858 – 27 April 1950), married William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne (later styled as the Countess of Selborne)
Lady Gwendolen Gascoyne-Cecil (28 July 1860 – 28 September 1945), author, biographer of her father; unmarried
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (1861–1947)
Lord (Rupert Ernest) William (Gascoyne-)Cecil (1863–1936)
(Edgar Algernon) Robert (Gascoyne-)Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958)
Lady Fanny Georgina Mildred Gascoyne-Cecil (1865 – 24 April 1867), died as an infant
Lord Edward (Gascoyne-)Cecil (1867–1918)
Hugh Richard Heathcote (Gascoyne-)Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood (1869–1956)

Lady Salisbury died at Hatfield House, aged 72.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by Catherine Gladstone	Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1885–1886	Succeeded by Catherine Gladstone
Preceded by Catherine Gladstone	Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1886–1892	Succeeded by Catherine Gladstone
Vacant Title last held by Catherine Gladstone	Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1895–1899	Vacant Title next held by The Lady Campbell-Bannerman
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lady Mary Sackville-West	Marchioness of Salisbury 1868–1899	Succeeded by Lady Cicely Alice Gore

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