Robert Edward Peter Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, (24 October 1916 – 11 July 2003), styled Viscount Cranborne from 1947 to 1972, was a British landowner and
Conservative politician.
Early life
Salisbury was the eldest and only surviving son of
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, by Elizabeth Vere Cavendish, daughter of
Lord Richard Cavendish. During the Second World War he served in the
Grenadier Guards. He took part in the invasion of Normandy in 1944 with the 2nd Battalion and was a member of the first British unit to enter Brussels. He was later appointed Military Assistant to
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as "Supermac", he ...
, then the Resident Minister in North Africa.
He later sat as
Conservative Member of Parliament for
Bournemouth West from 1950 to
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
. In 1972 he succeeded his father in the
marquess
A marquess (; french: marquis ), es, marqués, pt, marquês. is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman wi ...
ate and entered the
House of Lords. He also succeeded his father as President of the
Conservative Monday Club. He supported ''
The Salisbury Review'' and was also president of the Anglo-Rhodesian Society and Friends of the Union.
Property
Lord Salisbury ran holdings of 8,500 acres around Hatfield House, and 1,300 acres at Cranborne Manor, Dorset. At the time of his obituary he owned property around Leicester and Leicester Square, London, held by Gascoyne Holdings.
Marriage and children
Lord Salisbury married Marjorie "Mollie" Olein Wyndham-Quin (15 July 1922 – 12 December 2016),
The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, garden designer – obituary
/ref> granddaughter of Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, on 18 December 1945. Lady Salisbury was a noted gardener.
They had seven children:
* (b. 30 September 1946)
* Lord Richard Valentine Gascoyne-Cecil (26 January 1948 – 20 April 1978)
*Lord Charles Edward Vere Gascoyne-Cecil (b. 13 July 1949)
*Lord Valentine William Gascoyne-Cecil (b. 13 May 1952)
*Hon. Henry Gascoyne-Cecil (3 May 1955 – 6 May 1955)
*Lady Rose Alice Elizabeth Cecil (b. 11 September 1956)
*Lord Michael Hugh Cecil (b. 23 March 1960)
References
* Copping, Robert, ''The Monday Club – Crisis and After'' May 1975, pps: 15 & 25, published by the Current Affairs Information Service, Ilford, Essex, (P/B).
External links
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1916 births
2003 deaths
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British Army personnel of World War II
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Grenadier Guards officers
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