Georgina Gascoyne Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury

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Name Georgina Marchioness Parents Edward Hall Alderson		Grandchildren Lord David Cecil
Died November 20, 1899, Hatfield, United Kingdom Spouse Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (m. 1857) Children James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury Similar People Robert Gascoyne‑Cecil - 3rd Marq, Lord William Cecil, Hugh Cecil - 1st Baron Qu, Robert Cecil - 1st Viscount, Mary Cavendish - Duchess

Georgina Charlotte Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury, VA, CI (1827 – 20 November 1899) was the wife of British statesman, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.

Lady Salisbury was born in Paddington, the daughter of Sir Edward Alderson, a judge and a Baron of the Exchequer. On 11 July 1857, she married Lord Robert Cecil (later 3rd Marquess of Salisbury), a younger son of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (despite the disapproval of the latter), and they had eight children:

Lady Beatrix Maud Gascoyne-Cecil (11 April 1858 – 27 April 1950), married William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne (later styled as the Countess of Selborne)

Lady Gwendolen Gascoyne-Cecil (28 July 1860 – 28 September 1945), author, biographer of her father; unmarried

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury (1861–1947)

Lord (Rupert Ernest) William (Gascoyne-)Cecil (1863–1936)

(Edgar Algernon) Robert (Gascoyne-)Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864–1958)

Lady Fanny Georgina Mildred Gascoyne-Cecil (1865 – 24 April 1867), died as an infant

Lord Edward (Gascoyne-)Cecil (1867–1918)

Hugh Richard Heathcote (Gascoyne-)Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood (1869–1956)

Lady Salisbury died at Hatfield House, aged 72.

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