George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC , known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman.
Lord Curzon was the eldest son and second of eleven children of Alfred Curzon, the 4th Baron Scarsdale , Rector of Kedleston in Derbyshire, and his wife Blanche , daughter of Joseph Pocklington Senhouse of Netherhall in Cumberland. He was born at Kedleston Hall, built on the site where his family, who were of Norman ancestry, had lived since the 12th century. His mother, worn out by childbirth, died when George washer husband survived her by 41 years. Neither parent exerted a major influence on Curzons life. Lord Scarsdale was an austere and unindulgent father who believed in the shortheld family tradition that landowners should stay on their land and not go roaming about all over the world. He thus had little sympathy for those journeys across Asia between 1887 and 1895 which made his son one of the most travelled men who ever sat in a British cabinet. A more decisive presence in Curzons childhood was that of his brutal governess, Ellen Mary Paraman, whose tyranny in the nursery s
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