George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis Curzon of Kedleston (1859 – 1925)

English statesman, born at Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire in 1859, eldest son of Baron Scarsdale.  He purchased Tattershall Castle in 1912 and upon his death left it to the National Trust.

He attended Eton and Oxford and although he failed to take a first in classics his subsequent brilliance gained him a fellowship of All Souls College in 1883.

In 1886 he was elected MP for Southport and after extensive travel became under secretary for India in 1891.  In 1898 he was chosen viceroy of India and was given an Irish Barony – he was unwilling to accept an English one as this would bar him from the House of Commons.  He resigned in 1905 after disagreements with Lord Kitchener and left India.  He returned to politics in 1915 as lord privy seal in the Coalition and became a member of Lloyd George’s war cabinet the following year, becoming foreign secretary in 1919 and continued to hold this until 1924 although in 1923 with the resignation of Andrew Bonar Law he had expected the premiership.  He had been awarded the Garter in 1916 and in 1921 he was created a marquis. He died in 1925.

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