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Lord Richard Valentine Gascoyne-Cecil (26 January 1948 – 20 April 1978) was an English soldier, politician and freelance journalist. He was also a member of the aristocratic Cecil family, which includes the Marquesses of Salisbury, the sixth of whom was his father. The Cecil family had longstanding connections with Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Lord Richard was shot dead while he and a freelance film-maker, Nick Downie, were in Rhodesia recording material for use in a TV documentary they were making about the Rhodesian Bush War. The death of Lord Richard was one of a number of events during 1978 that brought Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) to an abrupt end; it was the identity of the deceased, and the nature of his loss, that had an impact on UDI's supporters. == Family ties == Lord Richard was the son of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury.〔 The Guardian, 15 July 2003 :(obituary of sixth Marquess of Salisbury )〕 His mother was Marjorie (Mollie) Olein Wyndham-Quin, who had married his father in 1945.〔Genealogy report :(aristocratic British families (extract) )〕 The Cecil family had well established links with Rhodesia, the capital city of which was named Salisbury after the third Marquess (it is now named Harare). The family had extensive land holdings in the country and the fifth Marquess (Lord Richard's grandfather) was a leading British supporter of the white minority UDI government that ran Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979. Lord Richard was the eldest of the younger brothers of Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, who has been both an MP and the Leader of the House of Lords. In 2003, Cranborne became 7th Marquess of Salisbury upon the death of his father. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lord Richard Cecil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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