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  2. 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 of India ...

  3. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. A white marble memorial to George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., GCSI, GCIE, statesman and writer, was unveiled in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey on 26th November 1930 by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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    When the figure of Lord Beaconsfield vanishes from the House of Lords and when that of Mr. Gladstone ceases to rise from the front bench on either side of the table in the House of Commons—the coun...

    They had heard about the barbarities of the crowbar, and the smoking thatch; but, in his opinion, there were worse barbarities still—namely, those of the loaded gun, the mutilated animals, and the...

    Oh! it has been an amazing tour; all new; Korea, Peking, Tonking, Annam, Cochin China, Cambogia; visits to fading oriental courts; audiences with dragon-robed emperors and kings; long hard rides al...

    I regarded the conservation of ancient monuments as one of the primary obligations of Government. We have a duty to our forerunners, as well as to our contemporaries and to our descendants,—nay, ou...

    Ever since the great Civil War there has hardly been a rebellion or insurrection in any part of the world of a minority either suffering or fearing oppression which has not been encouraged by membe...

    [Japan is] a restless and aggressive Power, full of energy, somewhat like the Germans in mentality, seeking in every direction to push out and find an outlet for her ambitions.

    "I do not see how any Englishman, contrasting India as it now is with what it was, and would certainly have been under any other conditions than British rule, can fail to see that we came and have...
    India was "the land not only of romance but of obligation." Curzon told members of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce at a dinner in 1903, "If I thought it were all for nothing, and that you and I ......
    Curzon told the Asiatic Society of Bengal: If there be any one who says to me that there is no duty devolving upon a Christian Government to preserve the monuments of a pagan art, or the sanctuarie...
    "For where else in the world has a race gone forth and subdued, not a country or a kingdom, but a continent peopled, not by savage tribes, but by races with traditions and a civilisation older than...
  4. The Hall we see today was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon, but perhaps the most well-known inhabitant of Kedleston Hall is his descendant George Nathaniel Curzon (later Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911). Learn about the political career of Lord Curzon and the work undertaken in women’s health by his wife Mary.

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  5. May 17, 2018 · Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess of Kedleston (1859–1925) British Conservative statesman. He entered Parliament in 1886, and travelled widely in Asia before becoming Viceroy of India (1899–1905). Lord Curzon carried out many reforms in India before resigning as a result of an argument with Lord Kitchener.

  6. Jun 20, 2019 · George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,, 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 of India from 1899 to 1905.

  7. George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon, or Lord Curzon, (born Jan. 11, 1859, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, Eng.—died March 20, 1925, London), British viceroy of India (1898–1905) and foreign secretary (1919–24). Eldest son of a baron, he studied at Oxford and entered Parliament in 1886.

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