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George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled The Honourable between 1858 and 1898, then known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911, and The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative ...
— Lord Curzon, Chancellor of the University, commenting upon the meal proposed to follow the award of an honorary degree to Queen Mary in 1921. edit Selected quotation 51
Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary, was the co-ordinator of the conference, which he dominated. [2] France and Italy had assumed that the Chanak Crisis had caused British prestige with Turkey to be irrevocably damaged, but they were shocked to discover that Turkish respect for Britain was undiminished.
Macbeth succeeded him as King of Alba, apparently with little opposition. His 17-year reign was mostly peaceful, although in 1054 he was faced with an English invasion, led by Siward, Earl of Northumbria, on behalf of Edward the Confessor. Macbeth was killed at the Battle of Lumphanan in 1057 by forces loyal to the future Malcolm III.
The film stars Ralph Fiennes (in his first film role) as T. E. Lawrence, Alexander Siddig (then credited as Siddig El-Fadil) as Faisal, Denis Quilley as Lord Curzon, and Nicholas Jones as Lord Dyson. It was made by Anglia Films and Enigma Television and first screened on 18 April 1992 on the ITV network, before being aired on PBS in May 1992.
The Glorious Fault: The Life of Lord Curzon. New York: Harcourt, Brace. OCLC 396977. Rose, Kenneth (1970). Superior Person: A Portrait of Curzon and His Circle in Late Victorian England. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-1-84212-233-4. Thesiger, Edward P. (December 1909). "The House of Lords: Its Powers, Duties and Procedures".
Frances McDormand won best actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards for portraying Fern, a woman who takes to the road after the plant in her small-town closes down, in “Nomadland.” It’s ...
The Indian Universities Commission was a body appointed in 1902 on the instructions of Viceroy of India Lord Curzon intended to make recommendations for reforms in university education in India. [1]