Oscar Browning was a British educationalist, historian and bon viveur, a well-known Cambridge personality during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. An innovator in the early development of professional training for teachers, he served as principal of the Cambridge University Day Training College (CUDTC) from 1891 to 1909. He was also a prolific author of popular histories and other books.
Cumberland terrace as it appeared at the time of Browning's birth in 1837
Eton College
James John Hornby as depicted by Vanity Fair
George Curzon as a young man
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,, styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
Lord Curzon, as Viceroy of India
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