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1125: Mary Curzon. Vicereine of India. Born: 27 May 1870, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Died: 18 July 1906, London, United Kingdom. Full Name: Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston. Though she was born in America, thanks to her marriage into the British Aristocracy, Mary held the highest political rank of any ...
Mary Leiter Curzon was one of perhaps 350 wealthy young American women, Fellowes estimates, who married into the cash-poor British aristocracy between 1880 and 1920. Winston Churchill’s mother ...
Among the most noteworthy and successful of those unions was the one between Mary Leiter and the British aristocrat George Curzon. The daughter of a Chicago businessman who had made his fortune in dry goods and real estate, Leiter married Curzon in 1895. Three years later, the now Lady Curzon accompanied her husband to India, where he was to ...
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Aug 8, 2019 · Another potential inspiration is the life of Lady Mary Curzon and her three daughters, which bears remarkable parallels to the characterisation of Lady Cora and her daughters, Mary, Edith and Sybil. Mary Victoria Curzon was a descendent of the Chicago millionaire, Levi Zeigher Leiter.
Apr 7, 2023 · Richard baptised 1st June 1593/died 18th March 1667/buried 20th March 1667. When Mary's mother, Agnes, made her Will on 27th August 1588 she was "Agnes Saunders widow, late wife of Sir Edward Saunders knight late Lord Chief Baron of the Queens Majesty her Exchequer deceased". [4] In her Will Agnes bequeathed "unto my daughter the Lady Farmer ...
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Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, CI (née Leiter; 27 May 1870 – 18 July 1906) was a British aristocrat of American background who was Vicereine of India, as the wife of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India. Quick Facts Viceregal-Consort of India, Monarchs ... Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, was a ...
Nigel Nicolson is the author of "Portrait of a Marriage," a biography of his parents, Harold Nicolson & Vita Sackville-West, & of "Long Life," his own memoirs. He has also written books on politics & the arts & the Whitbread Prize-winning biography "Mary Curzon."
