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Name
  
James 5th

Died
  
October 9, 1728

James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury
Parents
  
James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury

Children
  
James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury

Grandchildren
  
James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury

Grandparents
  
James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Lady Margaret Manners

Great grandchildren
  
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury

James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury (June 8, 1691 – October 9, 1728), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1691 to 1694, was a British peer.

Salisbury was the son of James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury, and Frances Bennett, and succeeded his father in the earldom in 1694. From 1712 to 1714 he served as Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire.

Lord Salisbury married Lady Anne Tufton, daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet, on 12 February 1709. They had four children:

  • James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury (1713–1780)
  • Catherine Cecil (c. 1722–1752), married John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont and had issue.
  • Anne Cecil (c. 1728–1752)
  • Margaret Cecil (died 1752) died unmarried of the smallpox, at the Earl of Egmont's in Pall-Mall.

    • Lord Salisbury died in October 1728, aged 37, and was succeeded in his titles by his son James.

    Lady Salisbury died in 1756. The Countess Anne school in Hatfield, founded in 1735, is named after her.

    Styles of address

  • 1691-1694: Viscount Cranborne
  • 1694-1728: The Rt Hon The Fifth Earl of Salisbury

    • References

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