Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury

Lady Salisbury c. 1862

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

Lady Salisbury was born Georgina Charlotte Alderson in Paddington, the daughter of Sir Edward Alderson, a judge and 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 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.

References

• Lundy, Darryl, Person Page, retrieved 5 March 2017