Person:George Curzon (1)

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George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
b.11 Jan 1859 Kedleston, Derbyshire, England
d.20 Mar 1925
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  1. George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston1859 - 1925
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  • H.  George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston1859 - 1925
  • W.  Mary Victoria Leiter1870 - 1906
m. 22 Apr 1895
  1. Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale1896 - 1966
  2. Lady Cynthia Curzon1898 - 1933
  3. Lady Alexandra Curzon1904 - 1995
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  • H.  George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston1859 - 1925
  • W.  Grace Duggan
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Name[3] George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Gender Male
Birth[1][4] 11 Jan 1859 Kedleston, Derbyshire, EnglandKedleston Hall
Marriage 22 Apr 1895 Washington, DC(his 1st wife)
to Mary Victoria Leiter
Marriage (his 2nd wife)
to Grace Duggan
Death[1][4] 20 Mar 1925
Burial[4] All Saints Churchyard, Kedleston, Derbyshire, England
Reference Number? Q271878?


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George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, during which he created the territory of Eastern Bengal and Assam.

During the First World War, Curzon served in the small War Cabinet of Prime Minister David Lloyd George as Leader of the House of Lords from December 1916, and in the War Policy Committee. He served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the Foreign Office from 1919 to 1924, during which he correctly defended the geopolitical talent of Eyre Crowe, who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1920 until his death in 1925.

Despite his successes as both Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary, Curzon was in 1923 denied the office of Prime Minister. Bonar Law and several other Conservative Party leaders preferred Stanley Baldwin rather than Curzon for Prime Minister. The contemporary Conservative historian David Gilmour, in his prize-winning biography Curzon: Imperial Statesman (1994), contends that Curzon deserved to be Prime Minister.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st and last Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  3. ↑ MacColl, Gail, and Carol McD. Wallace. To Marry an English Lord. (New York: Workman Publishing, 1989).

    He was intelligent and ambitious; three years after the marriage, he was appointed viceroy of India, a post he filled brilliantly.

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess of Kedleston, in Find A Grave.

    British Statesman. As Viceroy of India from 1898 to 1905, he initiated important currency, education and administrative reforms. During World War I he was a member of Lloyd George's cabinet, and from 1919 to 1924 he was Foreign Secretary. He is remembered as creator of the Kingdom of Jordan and the author of the books Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the Persian Question (1892), Problems of the Far East (1894), The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus (1897), Tales of Travel (1923) and Travels with a Superior Person (1985). Find a Grave

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