Biography of lord curzon
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary (–)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (11 January – 20 March ), known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from to and Foreign Secretary from to
Curzon was born in Derbyshire into an aristocratic family and educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, before entering Parliament in In the following years, he travelled extensively in Russia, Central Asia and the Far East, and published several books on the region in which he detailed his geopolitical outlook and underlined the perceived Russian threat to British control of India. In , Curzon was named Under-Secretary of State for India, and in he was appointed Viceroy of India. During his tenure, he pursued a number of reforms of the British administration, attempted to address the British maltreatment of Indians, undertook the restoration of the Taj Mahal, and sent a British expedition to Tibet to counter Russian ambitions. In , he presided over the partition of Bengal and came into conflict with Lord Kitchener over issues of military organisation. Unable to secure the backing of the government in London, he resig
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George Nathaniel Curzon
Lived
to
Dates in office
October to January
Political party
Conservative
Interesting facts
A veteran of the ‘Great Game’ (strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia.) Curzon was noted for his aristocratic disdain and vitriolic wit.
Biography
Curzon’s departure from India in followed an acrimonious dispute with Lord Kitchener over the organisation of the Indian Army and cast him into the political wilderness for a decade. However, his appointment to Lloyd George’s innovative 5-man War Cabinet in December signalled a return to political prominence. Heavily involved in foreign policy matters throughout the remainder of the war, he was the clear candidate to take charge of the Foreign Office when the incumbent Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, departed with Lloyd George for the Paris Peace Conference in January In October, he took on the role permanently.
The Foreign Office had changed dramatically since Curzon’s brief stint as Parliamentary Under–Secretary for Foreign Affairs between and Its autonomy had suffered under the energetic premiership of Lloyd George, while the war effort had increased the involvement of other government