Looking back to look forward

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 Looking through the deeds of the house the first thing that jumps out is the lost art of handwriting. They are beautiful objects opening a window to the stories behind the bricks and mortar.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
3 times for a total of thirteen years

Our house was built in the 1890's. The counterpart lease documents signed on 1. 5. 1901 by The Marquess of Salisbury K. G. to Mrs Emily M. Williams. The wife of The Reverend Hugh George Williams of the Rectory Llanengan Pwllheli in the County of Carnarvon

Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury served as Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom 3 times for a total of thirteen years

Lord Robert Cecil was born at Hatfield House, the third son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and Frances Mary, nee Gascoyne. He was a patrilineal descendant of Lord Burghley and the 1st Earl of Salisbury, chief ministers of Elizabeth 1. The family owned vast rural estates in Hertfordshire and Dorset. This wealth increased sharply in 1821, when his father married his mother, Frances Mary Gascoyne, heiress of a wealthy merchant and Member of Parliament who had bought large estates in Essex and Lancashire (Wikipedia)




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