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George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924.
Curzon Cinemas Limited (/ ˈ k ɜːr z ən /) [2] [3] is a chain of cinemas based in the United Kingdom, mostly in London, specialising in art house films. They also have a video on demand service, Curzon Home Cinema .
Curzon Village, a constituent area of the Canadian town of Woody Point, Newfoundland and Labrador Curzon, Missouri , an unincorporated community in Holt County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Curzon, Vendée , a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France
Curzon Film (/ ˈ k ɜːr z ən /), [4] [5] formerly known as Artificial Eye or Curzon Artificial Eye, [6] is a British film distributor, specialising in independent, foreign-language and art house films for cinema and home entertainment.
Curzon suffered throughout his career from stage fright and, unlike most star pianists, he played not from memory at concerts but with the score on his music stand. [2] In private life, Mann records, Curzon was "an ideal host, a lively raconteur, a keen connoisseur of painting and literature, and appreciative of other countries and their ...
Lady Curzon in her Delhi Durbar dress, oil on canvas, 1903 by William Logsdail. Mary was introduced to London society in 1890. She met a young man, George Curzon, a Conservative Member of Parliament who was thirty-five years old, had been representing Southport for eight years, and was heir to the Barony of Scarsdale.
Curzon Ashton Football Club is an association football club based in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. Founded in 1963 and nicknamed "The Nash", the club is affiliated to the Manchester Football Association and currently competes in the National League North , (2024/25) at the sixth tier of English football.
The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union, two new states emerging after World War I. Based on a suggestion by Herbert James Paton, it was first proposed in 1919 by Lord Curzon , the British Foreign Secretary , to the Supreme War Council as a diplomatic basis for a future border ...