Marquess of Salisbury

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Coat of arms of the Marquesses of Salisbury since 1821

Marquess of Salisbury is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Great Britain , named after the town of Salisbury in Wiltshire .

The family residences of the Marquesses are Hatfield House in Hertfordshire and Cranborne Manor in Dorset .

Award and subordinate titles

The title was created on August 18, 1789 for James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury . In 1780 he had inherited the titles 7th Earl of Salisbury (created 1605), 7th Viscount Cranborne (created 1604) and 7th Baron Cecil , of Essendon in the County of Rutland , (created 1603) from his father , all of them Great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Sir Robert Cecil in the Peerage of England .

His son, the 2nd Marquess, added that of his wife to Gascoyne-Cecil to his family name Cecil with royal permission on March 22, 1821 .

Most of the titleholders played a prominent role in British politics over the next two centuries, most notably Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , three-time Prime Minister at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

The future 5th Marquess, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil , was appointed to the House of Lords in 1941 by Writ of Acceleration and was given the subordinate title of his father, Baron Cecil, as 11th Baron. Likewise, the current title holder, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury , who inherited the Marques title when his father died in 2003, was appointed to the House of Lords as 13th Baron Cecil in 1992 by Writ of Acceleration. When the House of Lords Act 1999 abolished the right of hereditary peers to a seat in Parliament, he was also raised to a life peer on November 17, 1999 as Baron Gascoyne-Cecil , of Essendon in the County of Rutland , whereby he became his seat could keep in the House of Lords.

List of Marquesses of Salisbury (1789)

Heir Apparent is the eldest son of the current marquess, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne (* 1970).

literature

  • David Cecil: The Cecils of Hatfield House: An English Ruling Family . Houghton Mifflin, 1973. [the author is the younger son of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury]

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