Page:The house of Cecil.djvu/353

 THIRD MARQUESS OF SALISBURY 309

served as Lieut. -Colonel of the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, and was mentioned in despatches and made C.B. On his return to England he was appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the ministry of 1900, and three years later, on succeeding to the title, he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Lord Privy Seal. In 1905 he acted for a short time as President of the Board of Trade, and in 1909 was created G.C.V.O. He married, in 1887, Lady Cicely Alice Gore, daughter of the Earl of Arran, and has two sons and two daughters, the elder of whom has married the Hon. W. Ormsby^BfiSe, M.P.

The third Marquess left four more sons and two daughters, of whom the elder, Lady Beatrix Maud Cecil, is now the Countess of Selborne, while Lady Gwendolen, who was her father's secretary and is writing his life, remains unmarried. The sons are : the Rev. Lord William Cecil (born 1863), Rector of Hatfield and Rural Dean of Hertford ; he married Lady Florence Bootle- Wilbraham, daughter of the Earl of Lathom, and has seven children : Lord Robert Cecil (born 1864), K.C., M.P. for Hitchin, who married Lady Eleanor Lamb ton, daughter of the Earl of Durham : Colonel Lord Edward Cecil (born 1867), D.S.O., who has had a brilliant career in the Army, and has held various posts in the Egyptian Government ; he married a daughter of Admiral Maxse, and has two children : and Lord Hugh Cecil (born 1869), LL.D., M.P. for Oxford University, unmarried.

�� �