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 ti
Portrait, 1886
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
Arthur Balfour
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He also later served as foreign secretary in the L
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
…bitter, controversial war against the Boers, and led the Unionists to another electoral victory in 1900. He relinquished the premiership to his nephew Arthur Balfour in 1902 and died in 1903. He was the last prime minister to serve from the House of Lords throughout the entirety of their premiership. Historians agree…
Balfour c. 1900s
Whittingehame House
Balfour early in his career
Balfour c. 1890