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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), 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.
One of the main bill's sponsors was the former viceroy George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, who saved Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, in 1911. Until then, building owners could do with it as they pleased. The experience left a deep impression on Lord Curzon, who determined that new laws had to be enacted to protect Britain's heritage.
In 1904, Curzon took an official tour to visit the Muslim-majority districts of East Bengal to gain buy-in for the proposal. He hinted that he was considering Dacca as the new capital of East Bengal and asserted that the plan "would invest the Mohamedans in Eastern Bengal with a unity which they have not enjoyed since the old days of old ...
In 1903, Lord Curzon, then the Viceroy of India visited Bahrain and highlighted the need to reform the customs -which were in a state of chaos- by appointing a British director. [n 18] The ruler, Shaikh Isa resisted what he considered an interference, after which Curzon told him they were persistent in their demands. [90]
Most historians agree that by 1918, at the end of the First World War, permanent long-term decline was inevitable. The dominions largely had freed themselves and began their own foreign and military policies. Worldwide investments had been cashed in to pay for the war, and the British economy was in the doldrums after 1918.
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".
In 1905, during his second term as viceroy of India, Lord Curzon divided the Bengal Presidency—the largest administrative subdivision in British India—into the Muslim-majority province of Eastern Bengal and Assam and the Hindu-majority province of Bengal (present-day Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha). [7]
Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary of that time, was the chief negotiator for the Allies, while Eleftherios Venizelos negotiated on behalf of Greece. The negotiations took many months. The negotiations took many months.