Thread: Silliness Quiz
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Old 03-22-2011, 08:44 AM   #2066
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
Further clue. The uncle was Robert Cecil (better known as Lord Salisbury). He appointed his nephew to the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887. This act of perceived nepotism kick-started his nephew's political career, ending with him becoming Prime Minister himself in 1902.

Who was that nephew?
Well ... I was working my way through the names of every Prime Minister I could remember from that era .... there were a lot of them! [I just now cheated & looked at the list on Wikipedia!]
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