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; member, Archbishops' committee on Church and state, 1913-16; keen supporter of the Enabling Bill (1919); active layman in Convocation, the Representative Church Council, and the Church Assembly; 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), and Conservatism (Home University Library, 1911); 1st Baron Quickswood (1941). See also Volume 60, 61, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 75, 76.

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