Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil, Marquis of

Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil, Marquis of, statesman, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; as Lord Cecil, represented Stamford in Parliament in 1853; was, as Lord Cranborne, Secretary for India in 1866 under Lord Derby; entered the House of Lords as Lord Salisbury in 1867, and distinguished himself as foremost in debate; became Secretary for India under Disraeli in 1874, and Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1881, in which latter year he, on the death of Beaconsfield, became leader of the Conservative party; after this he was three times raised to the Premiership, the last time on Lord Roseberys retirement in 1890, by coalition with the Liberal Unionists (q.v.); was at one time a contributor to the Saturday Review, and is interested in scientific pursuits, chemistry in particular; b. 1830.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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Sale, George
Sale, Sir Robert Henry
Salem, 1
Salerno
Salette, La
Salford
Salic Law
Salicylic Acid
Salisbury
Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil, Marquis of
Sallust
Salmasius
Salmon, George
Salomon, Johann Peter
Salonica
Salsette
Salt, Sir Titus
Salt Lake City
Salt Range
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