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 582 CURZON Scarsdale, and the heirs male of his body, and BARON RAVENSDALE of Ravensdale co. Derby, with rem. in default of male issue to his eldest da. and the heirs male of her body, with like rem. to his 2nd and every other yr. da. successively. He bore the Standard of the Empire of India at the Coronation of George V, 22 June I9ii.(^) He m., 22 Apr. 1895, at St. John's Church, Washington, U.S.A., Mary Victoria, da. of Levi Zeigler Leiter, of Washington afsd. She, who was C.I. and Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal, d. 1 8 July 1 906, at i Carlton House Terrace, and was bur. at Kedleston.C") Will pr. over ;^ 11,000. CURZON OF PENN BARONY. I. AssHETON Curzon, of Penn House, Bucks, and J of Hagley, co. Stafford, yr. br. of Nathaniel, ist Baron ''^"' Scarsdale, being 2nd and yst. s. of Sir Nathaniel VmrOTTNTrY Curzon, 4th Bart., of Kedleston, CO. Derby (who d'. 1758), by Mary, da. and coh. of Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Bart., I. 1802. of Middleton, co. Lancaster, was I?. 2 Feb. 1729/30, and i>ap. at St. Geo., Han. Sq.; matric. at Oxford (Brasenose Coll.) 6 Feb. I 746/7, D.C.L., Oxford, 2 July 1 754; M.P. (Tory) for Clitheroe (of half of which borough he was the owner) 1754-80 and 1792-94. On 1 3 Aug. 1 794, he was cr. BARON CU RZON OF PENN, co. Buckingham, and on 27 Feb. 1802, VISCOUNT CURZON OF PENN, co. Bucking- ham. He m., istly, 23 Feb. 1756, at St. Geo., Queen Sq., Midx., Esther, only da. and h. of William Hanmer, of the Fenn, in Hanmer, co. Flint, by Elizabeth,('^) sister and h. of Charles Jennens, of Gopsall, co. Leicester, da. of another Charles of the same. She d. 21 July, and was /'ur. 4 Aug. 1764, in Penn church. He m., 2ndly, 6 Feb. 1766, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., (*) He has travelled extensively in Central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, the Pamirs, Siam, Indo-China, and Korea, received the Gold Medal of the Royal Geog. Soc. in 1895, and is the author of several books dealing with problems of the Near and Far East. V.G. C") "She was, it is needless to say, the first American to whose lot it fell to share with an English husband the greatest Viceroyalty in the world. By character, by personal charm, by a rare intelligence, Lady Curzon was admirably and perfectly fitted for this distinction. Her father was in every sense the architect of his own fortune. His origin is obscure; of family, as the word is here understood, he had none; of position, none save that which he created for himself. . . There were other characteristics of which it is, perhaps, less warrantable to speak freely; the beauty of her life in all domestic relations, no less remarkable than the beauty of face and form, were seen and admired of all." [Times, 19 July 1906). On this J. H, Round remarks that in strictness a Viceroy's wife does not "share" his Viceroyalty. In Lady Curzon's case some Americans made the mistake of describing her as " Vicereine " and of deeming her entitled to the same quasi-royal honours as the Viceroy. V.G. ("=) This marriage brought into the Curzon family the Jennens estates, for which claimants have periodically come forward. V.G.