NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 5, 21 January 1971, Page 6

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

UECIL — l He grew up in an atmosphere of high politics for eminent statesmen were often guests at Hatfield and the boy gazed with awe on such celebrated figures as Gladstone and Disraeli as they sat at table with! his father or walked in the spacious grounds. ; Hatfield too was the seene of many garden parties attended by the great of the time. Once, in 1887, Queen Victoria. vvho called Lord Salisbury the greatest of her Prime Ministers / honoured him with her presence. Guests at other . times included the German Emperor.

Public school . . university . . . the Bar . : . politics fhe beeame a Member of Parliament in 1905) . . . Cecil built a country home in Sussex and was one of Britain's early car users. He acquired an American steam-driven car, drove about at the top speed of 20 miles an hour. Once the brake failed on a steep hill. Somehow he managed to stop and j-umped out to do repairs. He lashed a piece of board to the tail and finished the perilous journey with his wife sitting on the board. amid a cloud of dust, acting as an emergency brake.