3-028-293 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Marquis of Salisbury, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins. 'The Most Noble Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury, is well known as a public man of high abilities, which have been displayed in both Houses of Parliament, in official administration and council, as a member of the Cabinet, and in contributions to periodical literature treating of the practical affairs of the day...Upon the death of his father, two years ago, he became eighth Earl and third Marquis of Salisbury; Viscount Cranborne, of Dorsetshire; Baron Cecil, of Essingdon, Rutlandshire; and coheir to the Barony of Ogle. His mother, the late Marchioness of Salisbury, was daughter and heiress of Bamber Gascoyne, Esq., from whom he derives the name of Gascoyne Cecil. He was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford...He sat in the House of Commons, as M.P. for Stamford, from 1853 to 1868; and in Lord Derby's Ministry of 1866 was appointed Secretary of State for India'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.