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unusual facts about Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury



Christabel Pankhurst

She demanded the resignation of Sir Edward Grey, Lord Robert Cecil, General Sir William Robertson and Sir Eyre Crowe, whom she considered too mild and dilatory in method.

Consumerism

Marketplaces expanded as shopping centres, such as the New Exchange, opened in 1609 by Robert Cecil in the Strand.

Edmund FitzGibbon

The queen's secretary, Sir Robert Cecil, advised the President of Munster, Sir George Carew to take good pledges of Fitzgibbon, "for, it is said, you will be cozened by him at last".

Edward Goschen

He was later to recall that his only instructions from the Foreign Secretary Lord Salisbury was to "keep an eye on King Milan".

Elizabethan government

Sir Robert Cecil, second son of Sir William Cecil, was Secretary of State in 1596 and master of Court of Wards after a clash with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

The Right Reverend Lord William Cecil, Lord Cecil of Chelwood and Lord Quickswood were his younger brothers and Prime Minister Arthur Balfour his first cousin.

Mildred Cooke

In 1563 a third son was born, Robert, who succeeded his father at court and was created Earl of Salisbury by James I.

At her head are her three granddaughters, Elizabeth de Vere, Bridget de Vere, and Susan de Vere, and at her feet her only son, Robert Cecil.

Richard Percivale

The queen rewarded him with a pension, and later with a place in the Duchy of Lancaster; and Burghley, when his son Robert Cecil became master of the court of wards, made him "secretary" of the court.

Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), statesman, spymaster and minister to Elizabeth I of England and James I of England

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), British statesman and Prime Minister

Simon Basil

His major patron was Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, in his London residence, 'Salisbury' or 'Cecil House' in the Strand, London (1601), and at Cecil's main seat, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire (1607–12).

William Farrer Ecroyd

He stood down at the 1885 election due to ill health, however Lord Salisbury appointed him to the Royal Commission on the Depression in Trade and Industry, an outlet for his fair trade views.


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