James [Gascoyne-Cecil] (1861-1947; ODNB), Lord Cranborne, 4th marquess of Salisbury (1903), Conservative politician and leading lay churchman. University Coll., Oxford; lord privy seal, 1903-5; lord president of the council, 1922-4; lord privy seal, 1924-29, and leader, house of lords, 1925-9; active in the institutions and political defence of the Church of England, and in parliamentary management of the 1919 Enabling bill; member, Church Assembly's house of laymen, 1920-45; son of Henson's benefactor, the 3rd marquess, and elder brother of Lords William, Robert and Hugh Cecil. Henson commented in 1947 that 'my own career has been so much affected by contact with the House [of Cecil] that I feel almost a personal loss in the death of the last Marquis': Braley, Letters, 205. See also Volume 66, 69, 70, 72, 75.

Journal references: 5

• 19 Jun 1904
• 21 Nov 1904
• 8 Feb 1916
• 15 Jul 1921
• 16 Aug 1921

See also [Gascoyne-]Cecil, [Rupert] William ('Fish'); [Gascoyne-]Cecil, Gwendolen; [Gascoyne-]Cecil, Hugh Richard Heathcote; [Gascoyne-]Cecil, [Edgar Algernon] Robert; [Gascoyne-]Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot