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
Curzon, c. 1899-1905
Curzon at Eton, 1870s
Curzon was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was later a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Curzon, his wife, and his staff on a tour of the Persian Gulf in 1903
Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston,, was an American heiress who married George Curzon, the future Viceroy of India.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
…estimation of British statesmen, occupying now a position of extravagant prominence, anon one of unmerited obscurity." On 22 April 1895, Curzon married Mary Victoria Leiter, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Levi Leiter, an American millionaire of Jewish descent, who co-founded the Chicago department store Field…
Mary Victoria Leiter
Mary Victoria Leiter, 1887 by Alexandre Cabanel
Lady Curzon in her Delhi Durbar dress, oil on canvas, 1903 by William Logsdail
Lady Curzon of Kedleston, Vicereine of India, c. 1902 by Franz von Lenbach