Social Victorians/People/Curzon

Also Known As

 * Family name: Curzon and Curzon-Howe
 * Viscount Curzon, courtesy title for the eldest son and presumptive heir of the Earl of Howe.
 * Baron Scarsdale
 * Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, 4th Baron Scarsdale (12 November 1856 – 23 March 1916)
 * George Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baron Scarsdale (23 March 1916 – 20 March 1925)
 * Baron Curzon of Kedleston (Ireland peerage, created 11 November 1898)
 * George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston (11 November 1898 – 20 March 1925)
 * Viscount Scarsdale (remainder to George Curzon's father)
 * George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Viscount Scarsdale (2 November 1911 – 20 March 1925)
 * Earl Curzon of Kedleston
 * George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston (2 November 1911 – 20 March 1925)
 * Baron Ravensdale (remainder to George Curzon's daughters)
 * George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Ravensdale (2 November 1911 – 20 March 1925)
 * Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
 * George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (28 June 1912 – 20 March 1925)

Hon. George Curzon

 * Romantic relationship: Elinor Glyn, who found out he was engaged to his second wife by reading it in the newspapers, while she was visiting him at his house

Hon. George Curzon

 * Eton College
 * Balliol College, Oxford University
 * Member, The Souls
 * Assistant Private Secretary to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1885)
 * Member of Parliament for Lancashire, Southport Division (1886–1889)
 * Under-Secretary of State for India (1891–1892)
 * Privy Counsellor (P.C.) (1895)
 * Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1895–1898)
 * Viceroy of India (January 1899 – 1905)

Timeline
1895 April 22, George Nathaniel Curzon and Mary Victoria Leiter married.

1897 July 2, Friday, The Hon. George Curzon and the Hon. Mrs. George Curzon attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. (Mary Curzon was #301 in the list of people who were present; George Curzon was #495.)

1902 May 1, Grace Elvina Hinds and Alfred Hubert Duggan married.

1917 January 2, George Nathaniel Curzon and Grace Elvina Hinds married.

Hon. Mrs. Mary Curzon
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, the Hon. Mary Curzon was dressed as Marchesa Malaspina in the Venetians procession or as Valentina Visconti of Milan, A.D. 1447. The Westminster Gazette says, "In the same quadrille [as Enid Wilson] was the Hon. Mrs. George Curzon, a perfect picture in white and gold brocade, silver sleeves, and a big blue velvet hat."

Alice Hughes's portrait (left) of "Mary Victoria (née Leiter), Lady Curzon of Kedleston as Valentina Visconti of Milan, A.D. 1447" in costume is photogravure #190 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Hon. Mrs George Curzon as Valentina Visconti of Milan, A.D. 1447."

Lady Robert Cecil went as Valentia Visconti, probably Valentina Visconti, according to her Hughes's portrait in costume. A 15th-century Lady Valentia Visconti is difficult to identify. Two notable Valentina Viscontis lived at the end of the 14th century: Valentina Visconti, Queen of Cyprus (c. 1357 – before September 1393), and Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans (1371 – 4 December 1408). Both were born in Milan.



Hon. George Curzon
The Hon. George Curzon was dressed as a "Spanish Admiral" in "black velvet."

No photograph of him in costume exists, but the caricature of him (right) shows him in 1896 as one of Vanity Fair 's "Statesmen" series, Number 672.

Nationality

 * Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon, American
 * Grace Elvina Hinds, American

Family

 * Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon, 4th Baron Scarsdale (12 July 1831 – 23 March 1916)
 * Blanche Senhouse ( – 4 April 1875)
 * 1) Hon. Sophia Caroline Curzon (20 Nov 1857 – 12 March 1929)
 * 2) George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st and last Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925)
 * 3) Colonel Hon. Alfred Nathaniel Curzon (12 March 1860 – 20 September 1920)
 * 4) Hon. Mary Eveline Curzon (c. 1861 – 4 May 1862)
 * 5) Hon. Blanche Felicia Curzon (18 April 1861 – 23 April 1928)
 * 6) Hon. Eveline Mary Curzon (16 February 1864 – 15 June 1934)
 * 7) Hon. Francis Nathaniel Curzon (15 December 1865 – 8 June 1941)
 * 8) Hon. Assheton Nathaniel Curzon (10 May 1867 – 20 August 1950)
 * 9) Hon. Elinor Florence Curzon (13 February 1869 – 11 March 1939)
 * 10) Hon. Geraline Emily Curzon (8 May 1871 – 17 May 1940)
 * 11) Hon. Margaret Georgina Curzon (23 December 1873 – 19 July 1957)


 * George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925)
 * Mary Victoria Leiter ( – 18 July 1906)
 * 1) Mary Irene Curzon, Baroness Ravensdale of Kedleston (20 January 1896 – 9 February 1966)
 * 2) Cynthia Blanche Curzon (23 August 1898 – 16 May 1933)
 * 3) Alexandra Naldera Curzon (20 March 1904 – 7 August 1995)


 * Grace Elvina Hinds ( – 29 June 1958)

Relations

 * Daisy (Marguerite Hyde) Leiter Howard and Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon were sisters.

Biographical Material

 * 1) Looked in the Irish Archives Resource for Curzon and Kedleston, turning up nothing relevant.

Notes and Questions
A number of people named Curzon attended the Duchess of Devonshire's ball:
 * 1) Viscount and Viscountess Curzon are treated on the page for the Earl of Howe.
 * 2) The Times article lists both Mrs. George Curzon and then later Mr. and Mrs. Curzon; was this another couple? Several people are treated this way, mentioned earlier in the Times article and then apparently showing up later, with fewer honorifics, especially if they are Hon.'s.