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Gascoyne-Cecil comes from one of England's most prominent aristocratic families, with a long history of service in Conservative administrations. His father, the sixth Marquess was a Conservative [[MP]] and President of the [[Monday Club]].<ref>Anthony Seldon, [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-saturday-profile-viscount-cranborne-conservative-peer-the-last-true-blue-blood-1186204.html The Saturday Profile Viscount Cranborne, Conservative Peer: The last true blue blood], Independent, 21 November 1998.</ref>
 
Gascoyne-Cecil comes from one of England's most prominent aristocratic families, with a long history of service in Conservative administrations. His father, the sixth Marquess was a Conservative [[MP]] and President of the [[Monday Club]].<ref>Anthony Seldon, [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-saturday-profile-viscount-cranborne-conservative-peer-the-last-true-blue-blood-1186204.html The Saturday Profile Viscount Cranborne, Conservative Peer: The last true blue blood], Independent, 21 November 1998.</ref>
  
Like the four preceding Marquesses, Gascoyne-Cecil was educated at [[Eton]] and Oxford.<ref>Anthony Seldon, [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-saturday-profile-viscount-cranborne-conservative-peer-the-last-true-blue-blood-1186204.html The Saturday Profile Viscount Cranborne, Conservative Peer: The last true blue blood], Independent, 21 November 1998.</ref>
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Like the four preceding Marquesses, Gascoyne-Cecil was educated at [[Eton]] and Oxford ([[Christ Church]]).<ref>Anthony Seldon, [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-saturday-profile-viscount-cranborne-conservative-peer-the-last-true-blue-blood-1186204.html The Saturday Profile Viscount Cranborne, Conservative Peer: The last true blue blood], Independent, 21 November 1998.</ref>
  
 
==Member of Parliament==
 
==Member of Parliament==

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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil is a member of the House of Lords. [1] He is well connected with Ulster unionism, a member of Friends of the Union, and part of a number of Eurosceptic and Neoconservative connected organisations such as Open Europe.

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Background

Gascoyne-Cecil comes from one of England's most prominent aristocratic families, with a long history of service in Conservative administrations. His father, the sixth Marquess was a Conservative MP and President of the Monday Club.[2]

Like the four preceding Marquesses, Gascoyne-Cecil was educated at Eton and Oxford (Christ Church).[3]

Member of Parliament

Gascoyne-Cecil was elected MP for Dorset South in 1979. He subsequently joined the "blue chip" group of backbench MPs.[4]

Afghanistan

According to the Independent, Gascoyne-Cecil spent part of his time as an MP in Afghanistan:

He decided to offer his freelance services to the mujahedin, then resisting a Soviet puppet regime, when he found himself crouching in shallow trenches as Russian bombs rained down on him.[5]

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References

  1. Tom O'Sullivan The Young Elite 1-10, The Guardian, 12 March 2000.
  2. Anthony Seldon, The Saturday Profile Viscount Cranborne, Conservative Peer: The last true blue blood, Independent, 21 November 1998.
  3. Anthony Seldon, The Saturday Profile Viscount Cranborne, Conservative Peer: The last true blue blood, Independent, 21 November 1998.
  4. Anthony Seldon, The Saturday Profile Viscount Cranborne, Conservative Peer: The last true blue blood, Independent, 21 November 1998.
  5. Anthony Seldon, The Saturday Profile Viscount Cranborne, Conservative Peer: The last true blue blood, Independent, 21 November 1998.