1895 United Kingdom general election
The 1895 United Kingdom general election was held from 13 July to 7 August 1895. The result was a Conservative parliamentary majority of 153.
Image: Robert Gascoyne Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (cropped)
Image: The Earl of Rosebery
Image: John Dillon (1851 1927)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years. He was also Foreign Secretary before and during most of his tenure. He avoided alignments or alliances, maintaining the policy of "splendid isolation".
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Cecil c.1857
Lord Derby. Salisbury resigned from his government in protest against proposals for parliamentary reform.
The Marquess of Salisbury caricatured by "Ape" (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair', 1869