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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.
Mary Curzon was born on 30 October 1887, the only daughter of Esmé FitzRoy and Col. Montagu Curzon, the eldest son, by his second wife, of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe. [1] Her brother, William Montagu Curzon-Herrick, was married to Lady Maud Hastings (daughter of Warner Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon). [2]
Curzon was born on 21 February 1947 to Edward Curzon, Viscount Curzon, later 6th Earl Howe, and his second wife Grace Lilian Barker Wakeling. [1] [2] From birth, she was styled as The Honourable Mary-Gaye Curzon by courtesy and became Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon when her father inherited the earldom of Howe in 1964.
Mary Curzon may refer to: Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (1870–1906), peeress of American background Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale (1896–1966), her daughter
The Peacock dress of Lady Curzon is a gown made of gold and silver thread embroidered by the Workshop of Kishan Chand (India), and designed by Jean-Philippe Worth for Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston to celebrate the 1902 Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at the second Delhi Durbar in 1903. [1]
Curzon was born in St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, [2] the eldest son of Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, and his wife and first cousin Mary Curzon, Lady Howe. [1] He was educated at Eton College, and graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. [2]
Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet, with his wife Mary Assheton, Lady Curzon, and their sons Nathaniel and John by Jonathan Richardson, 1727–1730. Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet (1676–1758), of Kedleston Hall , Derbyshire, was an English Tory politician who represented three constituencies in the 18th century.
Lady Mary was born at Gopsall Hall in Leicestershire, the daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, and his second wife, Anne Gore, daughter of Admiral Sir John Gore. She had two brothers, Montagu Curzon and Admiral Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe, and 10 half-siblings by her father's first marriage. [3]