Biography of James Gascoyne-Cecil 4th Marquess Salisbury 1861-1947

The Times. 22nd June 1910. LORD ACHESON [aged 33] AND MISS CARTER [aged 22].

The marriage of Viscount Acheson, elder son of the Earl [aged 68] and Countess of Gosford [aged 54], and Miss Mildred Carter, only daughter of Mr. J. Ridgely Carter [aged 46], American Minister to Rumania, and Mrs. Ridgely Carter [aged 45], took place yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square. The Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal (the Rev. Edgar Sheppard, D.D.) performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. David Anderson and other clergy, and Mr. Ridgely Carter gave his daughter away. She wore a very simple wedding gown of soft white satin with a long train draped with old point de Venise, and a Venetian lace cap over a spray of myrtle and orange blossom, covered by a plain tulle veil. Master David Stanley, Master Julian Ward, and Miss Diana Roberts, dressed all in white, followed the bride, and there were seven bridesmaids, Lady Theo Acheson [aged 28] (sister of the bridegroom), Lady Victoria Stanley, Mlle. Irene deo La Grange, Miss Canilla Morgan, the Hon. Rhoda Astley, Miss Elsie Nicholl, and Miss Marian Scranton, who wore white chiffon dresses with draped bodices and wreaths of myrtle beneath tulle veils. They also wore diamond neckislides and carried loose bunches of red roses. The Hon. Patrick Acheson [aged 26] was best man to his brother.

Mrs. Ridgely Carter afterwards held a large reception at Dorchester House (lent by the American Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid), and among the many who came on from the church were the French, Russian, German, Spanish, and Italian Ambassadors, the Danish Minister, tho Rumanian Minister, the Swedish Minister and Countess Wrangel, Mme. Dominguez, the Servian Charge d'Affaires and Mme. Grouitel, the Chilian Minister and Mme. Gana, the Belgian Minister and Countess de Lalaing, the Duke [aged 63] and Duchess of Somerset [aged 57], Katharine Duchess of Westminster [aged 53] and Lady Helen Grosvenor [aged 22], Prince and Princess Alexis Dolgorouki, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton, the Marchioness of Tweeddale, the Marquis [aged 48] and [his wife] Marchioness of Salisbury [aged 42], the Marchioness of Anglesey [aged 26], the Countess of Powis [aged 45], the Earl [aged 56] and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Kintore and Lady Hilda Keith-Falconer, the Earl and Countess of Gosford, Prince and Princess Frederick Liechtenstein, the Countess of Kimberley, Countess Grey, the Marquis d'Hautpoul, the Countess of Leicester [aged 54] and Lady Bridget Coke [aged 19], the Earl [aged 41] and Countess of Craven [aged 38], the Earl of Desart, Countess Fritz Hochberg, the Earl and Countess of Meath, the Countess of Bilmorey, the Countess of Londesborough [aged 49] and Lady Irene Denison [aged 19], the Earl and Countess of Derby [aged 70], the Earl [aged 51] and Countess of Yarborough, Ellen Lady Inchiquin and the Hon Lilah O'Brien, Lord and Lady Charles Beresford, Lord and Lady Leith of Fyvie, Lady Saltoun, Baroness Nunburnholme [aged 30], Baroness Newborough, Sir John and Lady Lister-Raye, Lord and Lady Monson, Lord and Baroness Savile, Lady Rothschild, Viscount and Viscountess AIdleton, Lady Alexander Paget, Lady Harcourt, Lady Desborough, Lord Suffield, Sir Herbert and Lady Jekyll and Miss Jekyll, the Hon. Sir Francis and Baroness Ufford and Miss Viliers, Lady Heien Vincent, Lord Knaresborough and the Hon. Helen Meysey-Thompson, Lady Pauncefote, Lord and Lady Weardale, Lady Grace Baring, Lord Strathcona, Lady Margaret Graham and Miss Graham, Sir Francis and Lady Channing, Mary Baroness Gerard, Baroness Manners and the Hon. Misses Manners, Lady Edward Cavendish, Mme. Langenbach, Lord Revelstoke, the Countess of Bessborough [aged 84] and Ladv Gweneth Ponsonby [aged 22], Lord Aberdare and the Hon. Eva Bruce, the Hon. Harry and Mrs. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs. F. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur James, Mrs. Walter Burns, Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, Mrs. Lowther and Miss Lokther, Mine. Vagliano, Captain and Mrs. Clonman, Miss Ralli, Mr. William Giuett, Mrs: Hwfa Williams, the Hon. Mrs. Derek Keppel, Mr. William Phillips, Mrs. Frank D'Arcy, the Hon. Lady Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, Sir Bartle Frere, Mme. de Bille, Mrs. Featherstonhaugh, Mrs. Cotton Jodrell, Mrs. Frank Mackay, the Hon. Urs. Charles Lawrence, the Hon. Mrs. Rochfort Maguire, Lady Barrymore, Mrs. Chauncey, and Mrs. Ronalds.

Lord and Lady Acheson left later in the afternoon for the Continent, the bride travelling in a dress of grey chiffon and a large hat swathed in tulle to match the dress.

A list of the principal wedding presents was published in The Times yesterday.

In 1920 James, 4th Marquis of Salisbury [aged 58] presented a stained glass window to St Etheldred's Church [Map], in memory of his three nephews, the dedication reads "To the glory of god and in memory of Rupert Edward Gascoyne Cecil born Jan 20th 1895 killed in action July 11th 1915 and of Randle William Gascoyne Cecil born Novr 28th 1889 killed in action Dec 1st 1917 and of John Arthur Gascoyne Cecil born March 28th 1893 killed in action August 27th 1918 I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come".

Lieutenant Rupert Edward Gascoyne-Cecil: On 20th January 1895 he was born to Bishop Rupert Gascoyne-Cecil and Florence Bootle Wibraham.

Randle William Gascoyne-Cecil: On 28th November 1889 he was born to Bishop Rupert Gascoyne-Cecil and Florence Bootle Wibraham. On 31st May 1913 Randle William Gascoyne-Cecil left Liverpool on the SS Mauretania, arriving in the USA on 16th June, with his declared occupation a journalist and final destination of Vancouver. He was subsequently recorded as arriving in Quebec on the 24th Jun 1914, which was only 8 days after he had been married - He married, Dorothy May Janaway, daughter of Edward Janaway, on 16 June 1914. On 1st December 1917 Randle William Gascoyne-Cecil was killed in action. The Herts. Advertiser of 15th December 1917, reported: "Captain R. W. Cecil. Bishop's son killed in action. Much sympathy will be felt for Lord Wm. Cecil, Bishop of Exeter, and Lady Florence Cecil, in the sorrow that has befallen them in the death in action of their eldest son, Captain Randle William Cecil. The letter from an army chaplain conveying the sad information reads: 'On Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st there was very heavy fighting in a village recently captured from the Germans when your son's trench mortars were put out of action. He very gallantly went to the assistance of the infantry who were hard pressed, and was given the command of a company. On the Saturday the village was shelled with extreme violence and a shell practically hit your son (his men report) killing him instantly.'"

Captain John Arthur Gascoyne-Cecil: On 28th March 1893 he was born to Bishop Rupert Gascoyne-Cecil and Florence Bootle Wibraham. On 27th August 1918 Captain John Arthur Gascoyne-Cecil was killed in action.