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George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924.
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politics · Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 · explorer · politician · diplomat · traveler · foreign minister · also George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess, Viscount Scarsdale, Baron Ravensdale Curzon, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis of Kedleston, Marquis of Curzon George Nathaniel Curzon, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis of Curzon, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess, Viscount Scarsdale, Baron Ravensdale Curzon of Kedleston
Born 11 January 1859 · Died 20 March 1925 · Q271878
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any government which imperiled the financial position of India in the interests of prodigal philanthropy would be open to serious criticism; but any government which by indiscriminate alms-giving weakened the fibre and demoralized the self-reliance of the population, would be guilty of a public crime.
As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straightaway to a third-rate power.
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
“any government which imperiled the financial position of India in the interests of prodigal philanthropy would be open to serious criticism; but any government which by indiscriminate alms-giving weakened the fibre and demoralized the self-reliance of the population, would be guilty of a public crime.”
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Died 1925-03-20.
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
“Rightly or wrongly, it appears to me that the continued existence of this country is bound up in the maintenance—aye I will go further and say even in the extension of the British Empire.”
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
“As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straightaway to a third-rate power.”
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
As he was survived by three daughters and no sons
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
“It is only when you get to see and realise what India is—that she is the strength and the greatness of England—it is only then that you feel that every nerve a man may strain, every energy he may put forward, cannot be devoted to a nobler purpose than keeping tight the cords that hold India to ourselves.”
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Leader of the House of Lords (1924–1925).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon was passed over for the office of Prime Minister partly on the advice of Arthur Balfour, who joked that Curzon "has lost the hope of glory but he still possesses the means of Grace" (a humorous allusion to the wel
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon was a contender for the office but was passed over in favour of Stanley Baldwin
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Was the chief negotiator for the Allies of the Treaty of Lausanne, which officially ended the war with the Ottoman Empire and defined the borders of Turkey
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon was granted the titles Earl of Kedleston, in the County of Derby, and Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1919–1924).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
During World War I, as Britain occupied Mesopotamia, Curzon tried to convince the Indian government to reconsider his scheme for Persia to be a buffer against Russian advances
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
While an entire British division had occupied Batum on the Black Sea, supervising German and Turkish withdrawal
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon bought Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, a 14th-century building that had been gutted during the English Civil War
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon visited Sir Douglas Haig (newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France) at his headquarters in France
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Lord President of the Council (1916–1919).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Secretary of State for Air (1916–1917).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Leader of the House of Lords (1916–1924).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Also became 5th Baron Scarsdale, in the Peerage of Great Britain
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Lord Privy Seal (1915–1916).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
It was a crucial stage in the drive to Indianise the Indian Army's officer corps, which was haltingly begun in 1917
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Was created Earl Curzon of Kedleston, Viscount Scarsdale, and Baron Ravensdale
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Was created Baron Ravensdale, of Ravensdale in the County of Derby, with remainder (in default of heirs male) to his daughters, Viscount Scarsdale, of Scarsdale in the County of Derby, with remainder (in default of heirs
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: President of the Royal Geographical Society (1911–1914).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
This so-called "settled fact" became "unsettled" by Lord Hardinge
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Was elected a representative of the Irish peerage in the British House of Lords, from which it followed that he would be a member of the House of Lords until death; indeed, his Irish representative peerage would conti
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon was elected an Irish representative peer, and thus relinquished any idea of returning to the House of Commons
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon became Chancellor of Oxford University, and the following year he was elected to the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
The post of Chancellor of Oxford University fell vacant
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1907–1925).
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The Sheikhs were all presented with a bound collection of the treaties their predecessors had entered into with the British, as a reminder of the obligations they were considered to have inherited
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Presided over the partition of Bengal and came into conflict with Lord Kitchener over issues of military organisation
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Was repeated by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal prime minister, who formed his government the day after Curzon returned to England
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Which was renamed as Bijay Toran after the independence of India in 1947
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (1904–1905).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Awarded Royal Victorian Chain (1903).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Stated that the British would counter any other European power's attempt to establish a military presence in the Gulf
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Had famously said, "As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Founded the Imperial Cadet Corps, or ICC
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon wrote an appeal to the Permanent Under-Secretary for India calling for indentured labourers to be treated better given their contribution to colonial defences, although this did not prompt immediate change
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Governor-General of India (1899–1905).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1898).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Awarded Fellow of the British Academy (1898).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (1898–1925).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Was created Baron Curzon of Kedleston, in the County of Derby
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Won Patron’s Medal (1895).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1895–1898).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (1895).
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Has been considered Curzon's magnum opus and can be seen as a sequel to Russia in Central Asia
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1892–1895).
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Curzon was named Under-Secretary of State for India, and in 1899 he was appointed Viceroy of India
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
'When you are Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs I hope you will restore the vanished glory of England, lead the European concert, decide the fate of nations, and give me three months' leave instead of two'
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By George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston at archive
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Career landmark: member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1886–1892).
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And in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-west Lancashire
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Curzon received the most prestigious fellowship at the university, a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College
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Russia had begun construction of the Transcaspian Railway along the Silk Road, officially solely to enforce local control
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Studied at Eton College (1872–1878).
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Born 1859-01-11.
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