“1st Baron Quickswood” Hugh Cecil Hand Written Letter Dated 1909. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood. (14 October 1869 – 10 December 1956), styled Lord Hugh Cecil until 1941, was a British. Cecil was the eighth and youngest child of. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. And Georgina Alderson, daughter of. Sir Edward Hall Alderson. He was the brother of. James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury. Lord Cecil of Chelwood. And a first cousin of Prime Minister. He was educated at. He graduated with first-class honours in Modern History in 1891. And was a Fellow of. From 1891 until 1936, when he thought he could not be Provost of Eton and a Fellow of Hertford simultaneously. After his graduation as BA in 1891, Cecil went to work in parliament. From 1891 to 1892 he was Assistant Private Secretary to his father, who was. In 1894, and entered the. He took a keen interest in ecclesiastical questions and became an active member of the Church party, resisting attempts by. To take the discipline of the Church out of the hands of the archbishops and bishops, and to remove the bishops from their seats in the. In a speech on the second reading of Balfour’s. Education Bill of 1902. He maintained that for the final settlement of the religious difficulty there must be cooperation between the. And nonconformity, which was the Church’s natural ally; and that the only possible basis of agreement was that every child should be brought up in the belief of its parents. The ideal to be aimed at in education was the improvement of the national character. In the later stages of the bill’s progress, he warmly resented an amendment approved by the House and taken over by the Ministry giving the managers, instead of the incumbent of the parish, the control of religious education in non-provided schools. This was not the only point on which he showed considerable independence of the government of which Balfour, his cousin, was the head. During the early 20th century, Cecil (known to his friends as “Linky”) was the eponymous leader of the. A group of privileged young. Members of Parliament critical of their own party’s leadership. The Hughligans included Cecil. At Churchill’s wedding in 1908 and the latter greatly admired his eloquence in the House of Commons. As Churchill declared to a contemporary. How I wish I had his powers; speech is a painful effort to me. Cecil dissented from the beginning from. Pleading in Parliament against any devaluation of the idea of empire to a “gigantic profit-sharing business”. He took a prominent position among the “Free Food Unionists”, and consequently was attacked by the tariff reformers and lost his seat at Greenwich in 1906. In 1910 Cecil became an MP for. Which he represented for the next 27 years. He immediately threw himself with passion into the struggle against the Ministerial Veto Resolutions, comparing the. In the next year, he was active in the resistance to the. As a “traitor” for his advice to the Crown to create peers, and taking a prominent part in the disturbance which prevented the Prime Minister from being heard on 24 July 1911. But he never quite regained the authority which he had possessed in the House in the early years of the century. He strongly opposed the. And he denounced the. 1914 Home Rule Bill. From the status of a wife to that of a mistress – she was to be kept by. Not united to him. In 1916 Cecil was part of the. Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry. He was sworn of the. On 16 January 1918. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Historical”. The seller is “historicsellsmemorabilia” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Vietnam, Uruguay.