CURZON, GEORGE NATHANIEL, LORD

CURZON, GEORGE NATHANIEL, LORD
   English statesman, son of a clergyman, educated at Eton and Oxford; became Fellow of All Souls; became Under-Secretary for India in 1891; travelled in the East, and wrote on Eastern topics, on which he became an authority; was appointed Viceroy of India in 1899; b. 1859.

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