3-021-077 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bust of the late Marquis of Salisbury, by G. Halse, 1868. 'The death of the second Marquis and eighth Earl of Salisbury, James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, a direct descendant of that Sir Richard Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, who was Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth and James I., and, in the junior line, of his father, William Cecil, the great Lord Burghley, who was the chief Minister of Elizabeth during the first part of her long reign, was lately recorded in this Journal. The late Marquis of Salisbury was Lord Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, and was an influential member of the Conservative party in the House of Lords, having held office in 1852 as Lord Privy Seal, and in 1858 as Lord President of the Council, in the Administrations of the Earl of Derby. These distinctions as a public man give some interest to our Engraving of his bust, now at Hatfield House, the sculptor of which, Mr. G. Halse, has produced a faithful and characteristic likeness of the deceased peer'. Gascoyne-Cecil was the father of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and grandfather of Arthur Balfour, who also served as Prime Minister. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.