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Hace 2 días · The siege of the small town received much attention from both the Boers and international media because Lord Edward Cecil, the son of the British Prime Minister, was besieged in the town. The garrison held out until relieved, in part thanks to cunning deceptions, many devised by Baden-Powell.
- 1876–1910
Hace 6 días · Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury KG GCVO PC FRS DL (/ ˈ ɡ æ s k ɔɪ n ˈ s ɪ s əl /; 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), 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.
- Himself
- James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (father), Frances Mary Gascoyne (mother)
- Eton College (did not finish)
- Conservative
14 de may. de 2024 · The adventurous Guards officer Edward Cecil married Violet Maxse in 1894, as Britain reached its imperial zenith. During the Boer War, as Chief Staff Officer to Baden-Powell, he was besieged at Mafeking, while in Cape Town Violet, young, attractive and enterprising, fell in love with Alfred Milner, the High Commissioner responsible ...
Hace 3 días · Sir Edward Coke, Attorney General, to Lord Cecil. 1603–4, March 5. Carr, a prisoner in Norwich gaol, persuaded the rest of the prisoners that now it was "interregnum, a lawless time, and that it was no offence to break prison at this time."
Hace 4 días · According to Cecil's letters of July 26, he has examined Clifton, who received a packet from Cecil for the Lord President, who says the same is in a chest on board the same bark, and that he intends to take passage with Smythe.—Bristol, 27 July, 1602.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd marquess of Salisbury was a Conservative political leader who was a three-time prime minister (1885–86, 1886–92, 1895–1902) and four-time foreign secretary (1878, 1885–86, 1886–92, 1895–1900), who presided over a wide expansion of Great Britain’s colonial.
Hace 5 días · At his coming out of Ireland, he delivered to Cecil a letter from the Lord President of Munster, signifying the discharge of his duty as commissary of the musters there, and his service at the siege of Kinsale.
