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
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Robert Peel, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and founder of the Conservative Party
Winston Churchill, who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan is closely associated with the post-war settlement.
Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)