Marquess of Salisbury is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1789 for the 7th Earl of Salisbury. Most of the holders of the title have been prominent in British political life over the last two centuries,particularly the 3rd Marquess,who served three times as Prime Minister in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy,1st Earl of Cranbrook,was a prominent British Conservative politician. He held cabinet office in every Conservative government between 1858 and 1892. He served as Home Secretary from 1867 to 1868,Secretary of State for War from 1874 to 1878,Lord President of the Council from 1885 to 1886 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster until 1886. In 1878,he was appointed Secretary of State for India and thereafter was elevated to the peerage,entering the House of Lords as Viscount Cranbrook. He has been described as a moderate,middle-of-the-road Anglican,and a key ally of Disraeli.
Michael Edward Hicks Beach,1st Earl St Aldwyn,,known as Sir Michael Hicks Beach,Bt,from 1854 to 1906 and subsequently as The Viscount St Aldwyn to 1915,was a British Conservative politician. Known as "Black Michael",he was notably Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1885 to 1886 and again from 1895 to 1902 and also led the Conservative Party in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886. Due to the length of his service,he was Father of the House from 1901 to 1906,when he took his peerage.
Sir William David Wiggin is a former British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire,previously Leominster,from 2001 to 2024.
Viscount Hereford is the oldest extant viscountcy in the Peerage of England,making the holder the Premier Viscount of England. The title was created in 1550 for Walter Devereux,10th Baron Ferrers of Chartley.
Sir George Otto Trevelyan,2nd Baronet,was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years,he was most notably twice Secretary for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery. He broke with Gladstone over the 1886 Irish Home Rule Bill,but after modifications were made to the bill he re-joined the Liberal Party shortly afterwards. Also a writer and historian,Trevelyan wrote his novel The Competition Wallah in around 1864,and The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay,his maternal uncle,in 1876.
Edward Cardwell,1st Viscount Cardwell,was a prominent British politician in the Peelite and Liberal parties during the middle of the 19th century. He is best remembered for his tenure as Secretary of State for War between 1868 and 1874 and,with William Ewart Gladstone's support,the introduction of the Cardwell Reforms. The goal was to centralise the power of the War Office,abolish purchase of officers' commissions,and to create reserve forces stationed in Britain by establishing short terms of service for enlisted men.
John Evelyn Denison,1st Viscount Ossington,PC was a British statesman who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1857 to 1872. He is the eponym of Speaker Denison's rule.
Henry Cecil Raikes PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Chairman of Ways and Means between 1874 and 1880 and served as Postmaster General between 1886 and 1891.
Henry James,1st Baron James of Hereford,,known as Sir Henry James between 1873 and 1895,was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman. Initially a Liberal,he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Solicitor General in 1873 and as Attorney-General between 1873 and 1874 and 1880 and 1885. However,he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal Unionists. From 1895 to 1902 he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Unionist ministries of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour.
Sidney Herbert,14th Earl of Pembroke,11th Earl of Montgomery,,styled The Honourable Sidney Herbert between 1861 and 1895,was a British politician and peer.
William St John Fremantle Brodrick,1st Earl of Midleton,KP,PC,DL,styled as St John Brodrick until 1907 and as Viscount Midleton between 1907 and 1920,was a British Conservative and Irish Unionist Alliance politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1880 to 1906,as a government minister from 1886 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1900,and as a Cabinet minister from 1900 to 1905.
Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth,1st Baron Shuttleworth,,known as Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth,2nd Baronet between 1872 and 1902,was a British Liberal politician and landowner. He was Under-Secretary of State for India and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Ewart Gladstone in 1886 and Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty under Gladstone and Lord Rosebery between 1892 and 1895.
Henry de Worms,1st Baron Pirbright PC,DL,JP,FRS,known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms,was a British Conservative politician.
James Purdon Lewes Thomas,1st Viscount Cilcennin,KStJ PC,sometimes known as Jim Thomas,was a British Conservative politician. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1951 and 1956.
William Heneage Legge,6th Earl of Dartmouth,,styled Viscount Lewisham between 1853 and 1891,was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1891.
Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot,18th Earl of Shrewsbury,18th Earl of Waterford,3rd Earl Talbot,CB,PC,styled Viscount Ingestre between 1826 and 1849 and known as the Earl Talbot between 1849 and 1858,was a British naval commander and Conservative politician.
John Somers Cocks,1st Earl Somers,known as the Lord Somers between 1806 and 1821,was a British peer and politician.
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke,2nd Baronet was an English Liberal and Radical politician. A republican in the early 1870s,he later became a leader in the radical challenge to Whig control of the Liberal Party,making a number of important contributions,including in the legislation increasing democracy in 1883–1885,his support of the growing labour and feminist movements,and his prolific writings on international affairs.
Charles Algernon Whitmore was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1886 to 1906,as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelsea.
