" was quoted with regard to Lord Cranborne, a contemporary member of the Cecil family who, in 1998, was dismissed from his Conservative Party office in the House of Lords for conducting unauthorised negotiations with the Labour government.

Though a junior minister he was sworn of the Privy Council and spoke in the House of Commons for successive Colonial Secretaries Lord Moyne and Lord Cranborne.

The family seats are Hatfield House and Cranborne Manor.

In 1998 Strathclyde, along with the entire Conservative front bench in the House of Lords, threatened to tender his resignation if the party refused to accept a proposed compromise plan for reform of the Lords that had been negotiated by Lord Cranborne, Conservative leader in the Lords, to the disapproval of party leader William Hague.

In 1994 she was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal Viscount Cranborne.

" Mr Hague's remarks backfired when Blair revealed that the Conservative Party in the House of Lords, rather than oppose his reforms, would definitely support them, and that he had done a secret deal with the Conservative leader in the House of Lords, Viscount Cranborne.

The Weatherill Amendment put into place the deal agreed to by the Prime Minister and Viscount Cranborne, and allowed ninety-two hereditary peers to remain members of the House of Lords.

Additionally, life peerages were created for former Leaders of the House of Lords: John Julian Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead ( Baron Ganzoni ), Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ( Baron Carington of Upton ), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne ( Baron Gascoyne-Cecil ), George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe ( Baron Jellicoe of Southampton ), Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd ( Baron Shepherd of Spalding ) and David James George Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham ( Baron Hennessy ).

Lord Addison and Lord Salisbury ( then Lord Cranborne ), the Conservative leader in the House of Lords from 1942 to 1957, both with memories of the troubles leading to the passing of the Parliament Act 1911, they agreed that anything promised in a party's manifesto would eventually pass ; anything else would be subject to full debate.

This led to negotiations between Viscount Cranborne the then Shadow Leader of the House, and the Labour Government which resulted in the Weatherill Amendment to the House of Lords Act 1999 which preserved 92 Hereditary Peers in the house.

During the 1990s, he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne.

After the 1992 General Election, John Major utilised a writ of acceleration to call Lord Cranborne up to the House of Lords in one of his father's junior titles.

Funding for opposition parties in the House of Lords, known as Cranborne Money, began during his leadership.

When the new Prime Minister Tony Blair proposed the removal of the hereditary element in the House of Lords, Lord Cranborne negotiated a pact with the government to retain a small number ( later set at ninety-two ) of hereditary peers for the interim period.

However, Lord Cranborne gave his party's approval without consulting the Leader, William Hague, who knew nothing and was embarrassed when Blair told him of it in the House of Commons.

Lord Cranborne, who had received the title Baron Gascoyne-Cecil, of Essendon in the County of Rutland, remained active on the backbenches, until the House adopted new rules for declaration of financial interests which he believed were too onerous.

Life peerages were also granted to former Leaders of the House of Lords, including John Julian Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead ; Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ; Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury ( better known as Viscount Cranborne and Lord Cecil of Essendon, having attended the Lords by virtue of a writ of acceleration ); George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe ; Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd ; and David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham.

* Purbeck House – on Oxford Road near the Lansdowne Campus, opposite Cranborne House.

The medieval hunting lodge was modified by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, between 1607 and 1611 to create Cranborne Manor House, a mixture of medieval walls and Renaissance architecture, for King James I who also came to the downs for the hunt.

In the 1980s there was a reproduction Iron-Age Round House built at the back of Cranborne Middle School.

* Viscount Cranborne: Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords

** James Emilius William Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne ( 1821 – 1865 )

* Viscount Cranborne ( 1942 – 1943 )

* Viscount Cranborne ( 1994 – 1997 )

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC ( 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903 ), styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years.

The famine left Cranborne with a lifelong suspicion of experts and in the photograph albums at his home covering the years 1866 – 67 there are two images of skeletal Indian children amongst the family pictures.

* James, Viscount Cranborne ( 23 October 1861 – 4 April 1947 ), later 4th Marquess of Salisbury

* Viscount Cranborne 1780 – 1782

Whittingdale was educated at two independent schools: at Sandroyd School from 1968 – 1973, in Rushmore Park at the heart of Cranborne Chase near Tollard Royal in Wiltshire and at Winchester College in the county town of Winchester in Hampshire, followed by University College London ( UCL ) where he was Chairman of the UCL Conservative Society, and earned his BSc in Economics in 1982 ( grade 2: 2 ).

James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC ( 17 April 1791 – 12 April 1868 ), styled Viscount Cranborne until 1823, was a British Conservative politician.

* James Emilius William Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne ( 29 October 1821 – 14 June 1865 ), died unmarried.

James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, CB, PC ( 23 October 1861 – 4 April 1947 ), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1868 to 1903, was a British statesman.

* Robert, Viscount Cranborne ( 1893 – 1972 )

Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC ( 27 August 1893 – 23 February 1972 ), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.

* Cranborne – 1. 5 miles away

James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC ( 1648 – June 1683 ), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1660 to 1668, was an English nobleman.

* Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne ( 5th Marquess of Salisbury from 1947 ) 1942 – 1957

* Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 1994 – 1998

James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC ( 4 September 1748 – 13 June 1823 ), styled Viscount Cranborne until 1780 and known as The Earl of Salisbury between 1780 and 1789, was a British politician.

Robert Edward Peter Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury ( 24 October 1916 – 11 July 2003 ), styled Viscount Cranborne from 1947 to 1972, was a British landowner and Conservative politician.

James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury ( June 8, 1691 – October 9, 1728 ), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1691 to 1694, was a British peer.

* Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 31 March 1640 – 1642