The Henson Journals

Hugh Richard Heathcote [Gascoyne-]Cecil

Hugh [Gascoyne-]Cecil (1869-1956; ODNB), youngest son of 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. University Coll., Oxford; MP (C) Greenwich, 1895-1906, and Univ. of Oxford, 1910-37; provost of Eton, 1936-44; moderate high churchman who vigorously defended church schools during the 1900s; active layman in convocation and Representative Church Council; member, Archbishops' Committee on Church and State, 1913-16; large part in passage of the Enabling Bill (1919); a leading member of the Church Assembly from 1920; member, ecclesiastical committee, 1920-37, 1942-50; frequently in conflict with Henson on theological and ecclesiastical matters after 1900, but shared his opposition to socialism, both Christian and secular; publications include 'Parties in the Church', in Henson (ed.), Church problems: a view of modern Anglicanism (1900), Conservatism (Home University Library, 1911), and The Church and the realm(1932); 1st Baron Quickswood, 1941. See also Volume 60, 61, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77, 82.

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See also [Gascoyne-]Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot; [Gascoyne-]Cecil, Gwendolen; [Gascoyne-]Cecil, Edgar Algernon (Robert); [Gascoyne-]Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, James Edward Hubert; [Gascoyne-]Cecil, [Rupert] William ('Fish')