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Vor 2 Tagen · George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy ...
21. Apr. 2024 · She remembers a trip to the Eastern Museum at Kedleston Hall, the collection of treasures that George Curzon, the former viceroy of India, had brought back from his travels. A young girl on her ...
24. Apr. 2024 · In 1895, after a two-year engagement, she married George Nathaniel Curzon, a member of the British Parliament, diplomat, and Asian expert. In 1898, when her husband was appointed viceroy of India and created Baron Curzon of Kedleston, Mary Curzon became Baroness Curzon and vicereine of India, which was then and for long afterward the ...
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Vor 6 Tagen · Its most famous member, George Nathaniel Curzon, was Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905. He died, aged 66, in his London townhouse on March 20, 1925, but his body was brought back for burial in the 12th-century All Saints Church in Kedleston. The National Trust, which now owns Kedleston, is preparing to mark the centenary of Lord ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The Marquess of Zetland’s now 72-year-old Lord Cromer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932) displays the frequent defects of official biography. Roger Owen observes that in contrast to another great proconsular symbol of Britain’s imperial noon, Lord Curzon, Cromer ‘is hardly remembered outside the Egyptian context’ and that his ‘once mighty reputation has now almost totally disappeared ...
11. Apr. 2024 · About Lord Curzon. Lord Curzon’s complete name was George Nathaniel Curzon, or the 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. He was born on January 11, 1859, and passed away on March 20, 1925. He was commonly known as Lord Curzon and became the Viceroy of India in 1899.
Vor 3 Tagen · The opening of the Curzon Bridge, across the Ganges, in 1902 [Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston] Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, CI (née Leiter; 27 May 1870 – 18 July 1906) was a British peeress of American background who was Vicereine [Kedleston Hall] such as: Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Earl Howe ...
