LG ALBUMEN INDIA VICEROY CURZON LALA DEEN DAYAL 1903

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ORDINARY-LIGHT Vintage Photography Photographer : Attrib on back as Deen Dayal 1903 Location: India Condition & Surface: Very Good, Near Excellent Condition of Mount: No Mount Tonal Range 1-10 (5 being Average): 7.5 Format : Albumen print Other : George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston , KG , GCSI , GCIE , PC ( 11 January 1859 Â- 20 March 1925 ) was a British Conservative statesman, and ditary peer seven times over, who served as Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary . Curzon was the eldest son and second of eleven children of the 4th Baron Scarsdale (1831Â-1916), rector of Kedleston in Derbyshire , and his wife Blanche (1837Â-1875), daughter of Joseph Pocklington Senhouse of Netherhall in Cumberland. His family was of Norman ancestry and had lived on the same site since the twelfth century. His mother, worn out by childbirth, died when George was sixteen; her husband survived her for forty-one years. Neither parent, however, exerted a major influence on Curzon's life. The Baron was an austere and unindulgent father who believed in the long-held family tradition that landowners should stay on their land and not go "roaming about all over the world". He thus had little sympathy for those travels across Asia between 1887 and 1895 which made his son the most travelled man who ever sat in a British cabinet. A more decisive presence in Curzon's childhood was that of his brutal governess, Ellen Mary Paraman, whose tyranny in the nursery stimulated his combative qualities and encouraged the obsessional side of his nature. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford . At Eton (1872-1878) he was a favourite of Oscar Browning , leading to his tutor's eventual dismissal. While at Eton, he was a controversial figure who was liked and disliked with equal intensity by large numbers of masters and other boys. This strange talent for both attraction and repulsion stayed with him all his life: few people ever felt neutral about him. At Oxford he was President of the Canning Club, the Union and the Presidents' Council , and after a brilliant university career - although he failed to achieve a first class degree in Greats , he won the Lothian and Arnold Prizes, the latter for an essay on Sir Thomas More , about whom he confessed to having known almost nothing before commencing study, literally delivered as the clocks were chiming midnight on the day of the deadline - was elected a fellow of All Souls College in 1883 . A teenage spinal injury, incurred while horseback riding, left Curzon in lifelong pain, often resulting in insomnia, and required him to wear a metal corset under his clothes, contributing to an unfortunate impression of stiffness and arrogance. While at Oxford, Curzon was the inspiration for a piece of doggerel which stuck with him in later life: My name is George Nathaniel Curzon, I am a most superior person. My cheeks are pink, my hair is sleek, I dine at Blenheim twice a week. He became Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Salisbury in 1885 , and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for the Southport division of south-west Lancashire . His maiden speech, which was chiefly an attack on home rule and Irish nationalism, was regarded in much the same way as his oratory at the Oxford Union: brilliant and eloquent but also presumptuous and rather too self-assured. Subsequent performances in the Commons, often dealing with Ireland or reform of the House of Lords (which he supported), received similar verdicts. He served as Under-Secretary of State for India in 1891 -1892 and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1895 Â-1898 . In the meantime he had travelled around the world: Russia and Central Asia (1888-9), a long tour of Persia (1889-90), Siam , French Indochina and Korea (1892), and a daring foray into Afghanistan and the Pamirs (1894), and published several books describing central and eastern Asia and related policy issues. A bol... read more

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