Richard Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale, was an English peer and landowner, a member of the House of Lords for more than fifty years.
Kedleston Hall
Kedleston Hall
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Kedleston Hall is a large English country house with a Palladian exterior and Neo-classical interiors, now owned by the National Trust, built in the 1760s as the seat of the Curzon family, near Kedles
Richard Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale
…marriage had produced only three daughters, and he was widowed in 1906, leaving Curzon's father as the heir presumptive to the family estates based on Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire and the peerage of Baron Scarsdale. His uncle was also given other peerages, and in 1911 was created Viscount Scarsdale, with a special…
Kedleston Hall, the south front
A cross section through the hall and saloon
Marble Hall 1763, decoration completed in 1776–77