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James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, 7th Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, Baron Cecil of Essendon, Knight of the Garter, Privy Councillor, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn, Launceston and Plympton Erle., 7th Earl of Salisbury from 1780, 1st Marquess of Salisbury from 1789, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, 1771–1823, Treasurer of the Household, 1780–1782, 1783–1804, Joint Postmaster General, 1816–1823, 1793., British peer and court/political figure., 7th Viscount Cranborne, Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1771 to 1823, Lord Chamberlain from 1783 to 1804, Joint Postmaster-General from 1816 to 1823, Knight of the Garter from 1793, Privy Counsellor.
Dates: 4 September 1748 – 13 June 1823
Georgian peer and politician who succeeded his father in 1780 and was created Marquess of Salisbury in 1789. His marriage and the later adoption of the Gascoyne name…
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James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, 3rd Viscount Cranborne, 3rd Baron Cecil of Essendon, Knight of the Garter, Privy Councillor, Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire, High Steward of Hertford., Viscount Cranborne, Viscount Cranborne from 1660 to 1668, 3rd Earl of Salisbury from 1668, Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire in 1668
Dates: Before 27 March 1646 – 24 May 1683
English peer and politician, son of Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, and grandson of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. He succeeded his grandfather in 1668 and was admitted…
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James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, Knight of the Garter, Conservative politician and statesman., 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil for life from 1999, Conservative Member of Parliament for South Dorset, Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the House of Lords, Knight of the Garter., 1868–1903, Member of Parliament for East Lancashire/Darwen and Rochester, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1900–1903, 22 August 1903, 1903–1905 and 1924–1929, President of the Board of Trade, 1905, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1922–1923, Lord President of the Council, 1922–1924, 1925–1929, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 1909, Knight Companion of the Garter, 1917., 4th Marquess of Salisbury from 22 August 1903, Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter from 1917, senior Conservative peer and Leader of the House of Lords, 1925–1929., 13th Earl of Salisbury, Baron Cecil of Essendon by writ of acceleration, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil of Essendon for life, KG from 2019, KCVO from 2012, PC and DL.
Dates: 17 July 1861 – 4 April 1947
Eldest son of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, he succeeded to the marquessate in 1903 and continued the principal Hatfield and Cranborne succession of the Salisbury branch. His…
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John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville of Raby, Knight of the Garter, soldier and naval commander., Knight of the Garter from 1369, Admiral of the North, Steward of the King's Household, Warden of the Marches, Keeper of Bamburgh Castle, Seneschal and Keeper of Fronsac in Gascony, royal diplomat and military commander.
Dates: c. 1337–17 October 1388
John Neville was a major fourteenth-century member of the Neville house of Raby. By his first wife, Maud Percy, he was father of Ralph Neville, later 1st Earl…
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Rev. Robert Holmes Edleston, Baron de Montalbo
Dates: C.1929-1952
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Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, Surety of the Magna Carta, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Striguil/Chepstow, 5th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, prominent Anglo-Norman leader in the Norman invasion of Ireland
Dates: c. 1130–1176
Anglo-Norman lord known as Strongbow who succeeded Gilbert de Clare and acquired extensive lordships in Ireland through conquest and marriage.
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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 10th Viscount Cranborne, 10th Baron Cecil of Essendon, Knight of the Garter, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times, Foreign Secretary, Leader of the Conservative Party, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster., Viscount Cranborne, Member of Parliament for Stamford, Secretary of State for India, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on three occasions, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Dates: 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903
Victorian statesman and Conservative prime minister who led governments in 1885–1886, 1886–1892 and 1895–1902. He inherited Hatfield House and the Salisbury marquessate in 1868 and was the most…
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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Secretary of State, Privy Councillor, Baron Cecil of Essendon, Viscount Cranborne, Knight of the Garter, created Earl of Salisbury in 1605., Baron Cecil of Essendon from 1603, Viscount Cranborne from 1604, Earl of Salisbury from 1605, Knight of the Garter from 1608, Principal Secretary of State 1596–1612, Lord Privy Seal 1597–1612, Lord High Treasurer 1608–1612, Chancellor of Cambridge and Dublin., 1st Baron Cecil of Essendon, 1st Viscount Cranborne, Lord High Treasurer, Knight of the Garter., Secretary of State under Elizabeth I and James I, Knight of the Garter from 1606, Principal Secretary of State, Lord Privy Seal, Master of the Court of Wards, Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Lord High Treasurer from 1608 until his death., Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Knight of the Garter from 1606., Secretary of State 1596–1612, Lord Privy Seal 1598–1608, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1597–1599, Privy Councillor.
Dates: 1 June 1563–24 May 1612
Younger surviving son of William Cecil and Mildred Cooke. He succeeded his father as a leading royal minister and continued the Cecil political dynasty under James I. His…
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Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Dates: died 1581
English nobleman who married Elizabeth Baldry, thereby becoming connected with the Stockholt inheritance.
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