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

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politician.

Early life

Salisbury was the eldest and only surviving son of

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, (27 August 1893 – 23 February 1972), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician. Background Nicknamed "Bobbety", Salisbury was the eldes ...

, by Elizabeth Vere Cavendish, daughter of Lord Richard Cavendish. During the Second World War he served in the

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. 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, then the Resident Minister in North Africa. He later sat as

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for Bournemouth West from 1950 to 1954. In 1972 he succeeded his father in the marquessate and entered the

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. He also succeeded his father as President of the

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. He supported ''

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'' 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: * Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury (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).

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