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
Biography
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 prominent later bearer of the Salisbury Gascoyne-Cecil achievement.
Notes / Sources
Cracroft's Peerage, Marquess of Salisbury — https://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/salisbury1789.htm
Government history of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil — https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/robert-gascoyne-cecil
Wikimedia Commons, 3rd Marquess armorial category — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Salisbury marquessate, Gascoyne-Cecil
Father: James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
Mother: Frances Mary Gascoyne
Spouse(s): Georgina Alderson
Children / next generation: James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury; Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood; Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood; Lord William Cecil, Bishop of Exeter; Lord Edward Gascoyne-Cecil
Armorial Registry
Cecil-Gascoyne-Cecil of Salisbury — Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Branch: Salisbury marquessate; Victorian Hatfield line
Issued / recorded: 1868
Gascoyne-Cecil of Salisbury — Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess, heir of the Childwall transmission
Branch: Principal Salisbury-Hatfield line descended from the 2nd Marquess and Frances Mary Gascoyne
Issued / recorded: 1868-04-12
Record history (latest 1)
- Updated crest/arms.
3 Sep 2026, 07:18 UTC · Registry system
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