Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, third marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), prime minister

by Paul Smith

  • Childhood and youth
  • Religion, marriage, and journalism
  • Political ideas and polemics
  • Parliamentary reform, 1865–1867
  • Hatfield and the House of Lords, 1868–1872
  • Secretary of state for India, 1874–1878
  • Foreign affairs, 1876–1880
  • Party leader, 1880–1884
  • The caretaker government and the home-rule crisis, 1885–1886
  • The premiership and the Unionist alliance, 1886–1892
  • The Foreign Office, 1887–1892
  • Return to opposition, 1892–1895
  • The Unionist coalition, 1895–1900
  • Foreign and imperial affairs, 1895–1902
  • Death and reputation

References

See also

Themes

  • Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs
  • Hotel Cecil
  • Primrose League
  • general election of 1906
  • Cinque Ports in the Oxford DNB
  • Leaders of the Conservative and the Conservative and Unionist parties

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives
  • Who Was Who

DNB archive

© Oxford University Press 2004–13