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Curzon of Kedleston

GEORGE NATHANIEL, EARL, a British statesman; born in Kedleston, England, in 1859. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1885 he was assistant private secetary to the Marquis of Salisbury; in 1891 and 1892, Under-Secretary of State for India; and from 1895 to 1898, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. From 1899 to 1905 he was Viceroy Viceroy and Governor-General of India. He represented the Southport division of southwest Lancashire in Parliament, from 1886 to 1898. In 1908 he was Irish Representative Peer, and since 1916 Leader of the House of Lords. In 1915- 1916 he was Lord Privy Seal; in 1916 President of the Air Board, later in that year becoming Lord President of the Council, and also member of the Imperial War Cabinet. In 1920 he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

In 1895 he married Mary Victoria, daughter of L. Z. Leiter, Washington, 1 CUSHING CUSTER in Salisbury, Mass., Jan. 17, 1800. He was United States commissioner to China (1843-1844); Attorney-General (1853- 1857); counsel before the Geneva Arbitration Tribunal (1871-1872); minister to Spain (1874-1877). He published: "Reminiscences of Spain," "Life of William Henry Harrison" (1840); "History of Newburyport" (1826); etc. He died in Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 2, 1879.

D. C., who died in 1906. He traveled extensively in central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, Siam, Indo-China, and Korea, and received in 1895 the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, of which society he was president from 1911 to 1914. Among the many other honors which have been bestowed upon him were a fellowship in the British Academy (1908); a fellowship in All Souls' College, Oxford (1883); honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford (1904), Cambridge (1907), Manchester (1908), American ethnologist; born in Northeast, Glasgow (1911), and Durham (1913). Pa., July 22, 1857. At first a farmer boy, He was also made Romanes Lecturer at he became interested in Indian relics, and Oxford University in 1907, Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1908, Honorary Fellow Balliol College 1907, Rede EARL CURZON Lecturer of Cambridge University in 1913, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1904 to 1905, and Trustee of the National Gallery in 1911. He wrote "Russia in Central Asia" (1889); "Persia and the Persian Question" (1892); "Problems of the Far East" (1894); "Lord Curzon in India" (1906); "Principles and Methods of University Reform" (1909); "Modern Parliamentary Eloquence" (1913); "War Poems and Other Translations" (1915); "Subjects of the Day" (1915); etc.