The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
SALISBURY is DEAD.
.,r,sH STATESMAN PASSED
ntr,uTLY AWAY AT HATFIELD.
HIS FAMILY AT BEDSIDE.
~urAGE CHURCH BELL AN
NoUNCED STRUGGLE OVER.

end Came without 81 Return Of Con-
..,ousncss-Lord Salisbury Dis
4,,,vuished Member of Distin-
,uished FamiIy-BOrn at Hatfield
House. Feb. 13, 1S3O-BecOme Mem
.ar House of Commons 1S53-Wns
secretary of state for India in
1s6e-Gained Fame as DipIOmatist
London, Aug. 22.-Lord Salisbury
d,ed peacefully at 9:O5 o'clock tonight.
During the past forty-eight hours the
ond was seen to be inevitable, the
e,roat frame of England's ex-premier
beng sustained only by the constant
use of oxygen.
Even the administration of oxygen
failed of effect as the evening advanced
and soon after the shadows had crept
I'D from the valley and enshrouded
the dull red walls of Hatfield house,
the distinguished statesman, making
" towards his favorite daughter, Lady
Gwendoline Cecil, who was kneeling
beside him, and then quietly breathed
his last.
viscount Cranborne, who now as
sumes the title of Marquis of Salisbury,
Immediately notified King Edward and
queen Alexandra, the Prince and
Princess of Wales and others.
The end of the distinguished
statesman was peaceful one,
without the slightest evidence of
pain. When death became immi-
nent, the attending physician summon
ed the waiting members of the family,
who gathered at the bedside and took
farewell of the dying man, who, how
ever, was unconscious of their pres
ence.
Within a few minutes of the death
brief announcement was handed to the
newspaper men, and simultaneously
the death knell from the tower of the
church of which the Rev. Lord William
Cecil. a nephew of Lord Salisbury, is
pastor, told the people of the little VIII
lage of Hatfield that the long struggle
was oevr
sketch of Lord Salisbury.
Lord Salisbury may be said to have
been born and bred in political at
mosphere. He may almost be said to
have had hereditary statesmanlike at
tainments. He traced his ancestry
back to Norman times, when Robert
Sitsilt, founder of the family was a
soldier of renown in the days OF VIII
liam Rufus.
The Salisbury branch of the Cecils,
however, had its origin from the sec
ond Secretary of State and Lord High
Treasurer, like his father before him.
and eclipsed his elder brother, who had
been created Earl of Exeter, in polit1-
cal reputation.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil
was the second Marquis's second son.
He was born at Hatfield, Feb. 10, 1880.
Following an almost sacred tradition
of those days that noblemens sons
should be educated at Elton and Christ
church, oxford, Lord Robert Cecil went
through those institutions. In his two
years residence at oxford he was an
Industrious student and an excellent
speaker in the Union. In 1910 he fin
lshed his university career, and start
ed on a tour for sightseeing of several
years duration, and went as far as
Australia. He did not travel like
tylical lordling. Indeed, there is
story that he lived in a hut digging
gold in Bendigo, doing his own wash
ing and darning.
On return to England to take UP the
difficult place of a second son, he OBJ
tanned a fellowship at Oxford. His
scorn for these places was later ex-
pressed in no uncertain manner, and
his practical view of them was indi-
Gated by his surrender of his own by
marrying in 1857, at the age of u
years, the daughter of Edward Hall
Anderson, a barrister, who afterward
rose to judgship and was made Ba-
ron Anderson by his son-in-law after
he had risen to a powerful position in
the state. 1t was a love match, and
Tor second son. with his fortune still
to make, it was not one to command
the ready approval of his father; but
1t brought the future statesman a tall
ented and sympathetic wife.
Made Member of Commons.
In 1858 Lord Robert was elected a
member of the House of Commons for
stamford. He early took a decided
stand on the great questions of the day
as conservative.
1t was during the Parliament elected
IN 1893, to which he was returned I'M
opposed, that Lord Robert Cecil first
became a man of mark
though the Salisbury fortune is enor-
nous, he was then on an allowance un-
penttlng his birth and position. He
was under his fathers ban because
oI mis- marriage. AS children came he
was obliged to exc out a support by
Mrltlng for newspapers and magazines.
IN speech in 1878, after he had be-
come famous throughout Europe, he
confessed that he had been 'fn other
1dys no stranger to the anxieties the
Iapors and the rewards of the news
paper press"
IN 1863 as he was rising to a speech
~ the Commons, Lord Robert received
Moro mat he was Lord Robert Cecil
no longer, but Viscount Cranborne.
through the death of his older brother
Inc old Lord Salisbury was soon rec
otclled to his new heir. and three years
1Iterward, in 1868. he died, leaving the
literary hack and the once discredited
son master of one of England's great
esI houses and bearer of one of her
most honored names
immediate recognition was given him
~ the Tory leaders, and in 1866, while
sun Viscount Cranborne, he received
post In Lord Derby's cabinet, that
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