Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Arthur James Gascoyne - Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury KG PC ( born August 27, 1893 in Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, † February 23, 1972 ) was a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party.

Biography

The son of James Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, and grandson of former Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne - Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, received his training at Eton College and the University of Oxford.

His political career began in 1929 when he was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for Members of the House of Commons. There he represented until 1935, the interests of the constituency of South - Dorseth. In 1935, he was appointed in the government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to the Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the State Department (Foreign Office ). In 1938, he met with Foreign Minister Anthony Eden resigned in protest against the appeasement policy towards Benito Mussolini.

At the beginning of the term of office of Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1940 he first Paymaster General ( Paymaster General ) and Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, self-governing colonies of the British Empire. In 1941 he became a member of the Upper House ( House of Lords ) by Churchill used the seldom-used means of early survey of the eldest son of a peer in the peerage by premature recognition of a subsidiary title of the Father ( Writ of Acceleration ), as well as Colonial Secretary ( Secretary of State for the Colonies ) and 1942-1943 Lord Privy Seal. In April 1945 he was a member of the delegation to the Conference of San Francisco, which later led to the founding of the United Nations (UN).

During the reign of the Labour Party under Prime Minister Clement Attlee 1945-1951 he was the opposition leader in the upper house, and thus the counterpart to Winston Churchill, the Leader of the Opposition in the House of was. In this role, he was instrumental in the legislation for economic and political reforms, especially since the Conservative Party decreed in the upper house of the majority.

After the electoral victory of the conservatives he was first appointed by Prime Minister Churchill to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1951. However, a year later he became in 1952 Lord President of the Council and held that office under the 1955 Churchill subsequent Prime Minister Eden until 1957. At the same time he was 1951-1957 and Leader of the House of Lords and therefore Chairman of the Government Group in the House of Lords. In this role, he tried within its capability to carry out reforms in this chamber of parliament.

At the coronation procession in 1953 he was laureate of State Sword ( Great Sword of State ), part of the Crown Jewels. Together with Churchill, he was the 1957 Queen Elizabeth II the incumbent Finance Minister Harold Macmillan suggested unexpectedly in January as the successor to Prime Minister Eden instead of the then Lord Privy Seal Richard Austen Butler.

A few months later he joined in April 1957 from his post as Lord President in protest against the abolition of the exile of Archbishop Makarios III. of Cyprus back.

From November 1951 to 1972 he was Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.

Awards

For his services he was beaten, among other things 1944 Knight of the Order of the Garter ( Knight of the Garter ). From 1960 to 1972 he was chancellor of this order.

Swell

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, p 292, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2