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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

British statesman, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary who shaped borders in the Middle East and Asia.

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Kedleston Hall, where the Curzon family had resided since the 12th century, was the birthplace of George Nathaniel Curzon on 11 January 1859.[1][2]

Life and work

His mother died when he was 16, and his father disapproved of his extensive travels across Asia between 1887 and 1895.[1] He was educated at Wixenford School, Eton College, and Balliol College, Oxford, and a spinal injury from riding required him to wear a metal corset for life.[3] He entered Parliament as Member for Southport in 1886 and served as Under-Secretary of State for India and for Foreign Affairs.[4][5] He married Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of an American millionaire, on 22 April 1895.[6][2]

As Viceroy of India, he created the North West Frontier Province and pursued a policy of forceful control.[7] Alfred Curzon, 4th Baron Scarsdale, and his wife Blanche, who was the daughter of Joseph Pocklington-Senhouse, were the parents of George Curzon, their eldest son.[1] A British expedition to Tibet was dispatched by Curzon in 1903, and he oversaw the partition of Bengal in 1905.[8][9]

What the cited sources add

It states that Curzon knew no Persian and saw only a small section of the country.[2] The same source records that Curzon regarded British India as "the noblest fabric yet reared by the genius of a conquering nation."[2] A BBC News article reports that Curzon's pith helmet was lent by his family for an exhibition at Eton.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ferguson, "Empire : the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power", New York : Basic Books, 2004, p. 172 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. "CURZON, GEORGE NATHANIEL", Encyclopaedia Iranica. facts only, no text reused. iranicaonline.org
  3. Wikipedia, "George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Philip Holden, Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-state (2008), p. 46.; Eton, the Raj and modern India; By Alastair Lawson; 9 March 2005; BBC News.; Chisholm 1911; Davenport-Hines, "Browning, Oscar", 3 January 2008; "... Oscar Browning (1837–1923), who had been sacked from Eton in September 1875 under suspicion of pederasty, partly because of his involvement with young Geor; Mosley, "Curzon: The End of an Epoch", Longmans, Green, and Co., 1961 (we also read that sourc en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gilmour, "Curzon: Imperial Statesman", Penguin Books, 2019, p. 4; Chisholm 1911 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Mosley, "Curzon: The End of an Epoch", 1961 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chisholm 1911; Wilson, "After the Victorians", Hutchinson, 2005, p. 596; Thomas, "Cobbold's Diary", British Broadcasting Corporation, 1977; Bradford, "Lady Alexandra Metcalfe", The Independent, 9 August 1995 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kolsky, "The Colonial Rule of Law and the Legal Regime of Exception: Frontier "Fanaticism" and State Violence in British India", The American Historical Review, October 2015, p. 1218–1246 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Matless, "Younghusband, Sir Francis Edward", 28 September 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gilmour, "Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston", 6 January 2011 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Eton, the Raj and modern India; By Alastair Lawson; 9 March 2005; BBC News.. facts only, no text reused. news.bbc.co.uk

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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