James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury (8 June 1691 – 9 October 1728), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1691 to 1694, was a British nobleman, politician, and

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. Salisbury was the son of

James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury (1666–1694), until 1683 known by the courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne, was an English nobleman, politician, and peer. A courtier of King James II, during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 he commanded a r ...

, and Frances Bennett, and succeeded his father in the earldom in 1694. From 1712 to 1714 he served as Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. Lord Salisbury married Lady Anne Tufton, daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, on 12 February 1709. They had four children: * James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury (1713–1780) *Catherine Cecil (c. 1722–1752), married John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont and had issue. *Anne Cecil (c. 1728–1752) *Margaret Cecil (died 1752) died, unmarried, of smallpox, at the Earl of Egmont's in Pall-Mall. Lord Salisbury died in October 1728, aged 37, and was succeeded in his titles by his son James. Lady Salisbury died in 1756. The Countess Anne school in Hatfield, founded in 1735, is named after her.

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* * 1691 births 1728 deaths James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury James Lord-Lieutenants of Hertfordshire {{England-earl-stub