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  • Yes, they come from the manor house at Cranborne, which is a few miles away, as you know.

    Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007

  • Somewhere called Cranborne Alley, off Leicester Square.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • Somewhere called Cranborne Alley, off Leicester Square.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • Somewhere called Cranborne Alley, off Leicester Square.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • There have been many Cecils – the Marquess of Salisbury, his nephew Arthur Balfour, and Viscount Cranborne – and two famous Pitts.

    Great dynasties of the world: The Benns 2011

  • There have been many Cecils – the Marquess of Salisbury, his nephew Arthur Balfour, and Viscount Cranborne – and two famous Pitts.

    Great dynasties of the world: The Benns 2011

  • Born at the end of an age of entitlement, Cranborne served in the era of a bloodless liberal revolution, in which electoral reform broadened the voting public.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Cranborne lowered himself into politics like a fastidious plumber entering a blocked drain, more from duty than desire.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Born at the end of an age of entitlement, Cranborne served in the era of a bloodless liberal revolution, in which electoral reform broadened the voting public.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • In 1866, following the death of his sickly elder brother, he entered Parliament as Viscount Cranborne, a self-styled “illiberal Tory.”

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

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