ABSTRACT
The Sir Thomas Lombe marriage brought fresh vigour into the stock, notably in the case of one of Mary Lombe’s younger sons, Thomas Maitland, who quite obviously inherited the determined character of his maternal grandfather, though he was destined to exercise it in a very different sphere. The immediate descent of his wife, Lady Blanche Cecil, daughter of the second Marquis of Salisbury, bore a curious resemblance to that of her husband’s Maitland grandfather, for her mother, Frances Gascoigne, came of a family as strictly commercial as the Lombes. Sir John Trevor only child married Michael Hill; the daughter of one of her sons was mother of the great Duke of Wellington and his hardly less distinguished brother, Lord Wellesley; the granddaughter of another was the first Marchioness of Salisbury. The Prime Minister, Lord Balfour’s uncle, the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, is balanced by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Haldane’s great-grand-uncle, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Eldon.
