Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury his nephew, Arthur Balfour. King Edward VII conferred upon him the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO), with the order star set in brilliants, during his resignation audience. Salisbury, due to breathing difficulties caused by his great weight, took to sleeping in a chair at Hatfield House. His death in August 1903 followed a fall from that chair, when by then he had a weak heart condition and blood poisoning caused by an ulcerated leg. Salisbury was buried at St Etheldreda's Church, Hatfield, where his predecessor as prime minister, Lord Melbourne, is also interred. When Salisbury died his
Wollert Konow (Prime Minister of Norway) in 1877–1879 Deputy to the Parliament for Søndre Bergenhus amt (now Hordaland). He was Minister of the Interior 1891–1893, Minister of Agriculture 1898–1902, and Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Auditing 1902–1903. He was Odelsting president 1884–1887 and President of the Storting in 1888 and again from 1897 to 1899. He was a central board member of the Liberal Left Party from 1909 to 1912. Wollert Konow served as Prime Minister over a two year period as leader of a coalition which combined elements of two competing parties; "Høgre" and "Frisindede Venstre". Konow's coalition government came to an end in