Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

✶February 3, 1830

†August 22, 1903

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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years. He was also Foreign Secretary before and during most of his tenure. He avoided international alignments or alliances, maintaining the policy of "splendid isolation".

British prime minister (1885-86; 1886-92; 1895-1902)

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