Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury

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The Most Honourable The Marquess of Salisbury KG KCVO PC DL
Lord Salisbury in 2013
Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 October 2005
Preceded by	The Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth
Leader of the Opposition in the Lords Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
In office 2 May 1997 – 3 December 1998
Leader	John Major William Hague
Preceded by	The Lord Richard
Succeeded by	The Lord Strathclyde
Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
In office 20 July 1994 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Lord Wakeham
Succeeded by	The Lord Richard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
In office 22 April 1992 – 20 July 1994
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Kenneth Carlisle & The Earl of Arran
Succeeded by	The Lord Henley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 29 April 1992 – 11 November 1999[1]
Preceded by	The 6th Marquess of Salisbury
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
as a life peer 17 November 1999 – 8 June 2017[2]
Member of Parliament for South Dorset
In office 3 May 1979 – 18 May 1987
Preceded by	Evelyn King
Succeeded by	Ian Bruce
Personal details
Born	(1946-09-30) 30 September 1946 (age 77)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Hannah Stirling ​ (m. 1970)​
Children	5
Parent	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury (father)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil, KG, KCVO, PC, DL (born 30 September 1946) is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons, and in the 1990s he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. Lord Salisbury lives in one of England's largest historic houses, the 17th-century Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, and currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.