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 THE SALISBURY LINE 245

Chelmsford ; ' a very good name it was indeed a chance.'

" I thought it a very nice allusion to his long expecta- tion and almost unhoped for attainment of that honour. I was much pleased on the second evening with an elder boy of ten. He was not in the room when the other and younger children bade their mother good-night ; but as the company were about to proceed to the dining room, as we crossed the hall to enter it, the boy rushed from a side door, knelt, took up the skirt of her ladyship's robe, pressed it to his lips, and passed rapidly upstairs." *

Lord Salisbury was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex in 1842, and in the same year he received the Garter. He joined Lord Derby's first ministry in 1852 as Lord Privy Seal, and his second ministry in 1858 9 as Lord President of the Council, but on each occasion the Govern- ment was so short-lived that his experience of Cabinet rank was but slight. He died in 1868, leaving two sons and two daughters by his first wife, and three sons and two daughters by his second. With the latter we are not concerned here. The two daughters of the first marriage, Lady Mildred Beresford-Hope, and Lady Blanche Balfour, have already been mentioned. The sons were Lord Robert, the third Marquess, and Lieut. - Colonel Lord Eustace Cecil, formerly Surveyor- General of the Ordnance (1874 1880), now Director of the Great Eastern Railway. An elder son, James, Lord Cranborne, lost his sight in early life and died unmarried in 1865. He

1 Diary of Richard Redgrave, August 6th, 1858.

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