Lord George Nathaniel Curzon

1859 - 1925  (66 years)

• Name	George Nathaniel Curzon
  Prefix	Lord
  Birth	11 Jan 1859	Kedleston, Derby, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Mar 1925	England
  Person ID	I43805	Scudder
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2015

  
  

  Family	Mary Victoria Leiter,   b. 27 May 1870, Chicago, Cook, Illinois d. 18 Jul 1906, England (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	22 Apr 1895
  Children	1. Lady Cynthia Blanch Curzon,   b. 23 Aug 1898, Kedleston, Derbyshire, England d. 16 May 1933, London, England (Age 34 years)
  Family ID	F15532	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  George was a British Conservative statesman who was the Viceroy of India and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, but who was passed over as Prime Minister in 1923 in favour of Stanley Baldwin. He was a key figure in instituting the 1905 Partition of Bengal, which led to a major political crisis for the British Empire. He drew the Curzon Line in Eastern Europe. His character polarised opinion amongst his contemporaries, "sow[ing] gratitude and resentment along his path with equally lavish hands" He quarrelled endlessly and his arrogance and inflexibility made even more enemies. Critics have been negative in contrasting his enormous talents and energy on behalf of British imperialism with his mixed results and unrealized ambitions.