Excerpt from Speeches of the Marquis of Salisbury: With a Sketch of His Life The Marquis of Salisbury enjoyed the great advantage, not common to his order, of passing his early manhood without being subjected to the enervating influences that surround an heir-apparent. Born a second son, he had not, up to his thirty-fifth year, looked forward to anything more than being the brother to a great peer, himself holding the courtesy title of Lord Robert Cecil. As such he was known up to the year 1865, when his elder brother, the heir to the marquisate, suddenly died, and Lord Robert's prospects in life underwent an extensive change. Lord Robert Cecil sat in the House of Commons as member for Stamford, for which borough he was elected in his twenty-third year, and which he represented till he was removed to the Upper House on the death of his father in April, 1868. With the portion of a younger son he essayed to add to his income by work in the field of journalism. At one time, it is understood, he was pretty regularly engaged as a leader writer on the Times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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