Lord Curzon Bridge is a road and rail bridge spanning the River Ganges and connecting Prayagraj with Phaphamau from the Teliarganj area of India. The bridge...
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Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, CI (née Leiter; 27 May 1870 – 18 July 1906), was an American heiress who married George Curzon, the future...
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major portion of the film was shot at Hanuman Mandir, Civil Lines, Lord Curzon Bridge and the Triveni Sangam. Following this, there was a 30-day schedule...
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Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale, Baroness Ravensdale of Kedleston, CBE (20 January 1896 – 9 February 1966), was a British peeress, socialite...
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monumentalize the empire." After Victoria's death on 22 January 1901, Curzon wrote to Lord George Hamilton, the Secretary of State for India on 24 January,...
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Bindon Blood (section Curzon incident)
lieutenant general. In 1902 General Blood clashed with the then Viceroy Lord Curzon over an incident involving the murder of an Indian cook by troopers of...
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Kedleston Hall (category Curzon family)
neo-classical manor house owned by the National Trust, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west...
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Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator...
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in India saw him quarrel with another eminent proconsul, the Viceroy Lord Curzon, who eventually resigned. Kitchener then returned to Egypt as British...
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before being sold to George Cubitt, 1st Baron Ashcombe, and later to Lord Curzon, both of whom undertook further restoration work. The castle is protected...
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Schweitzer,Pathways to Elfland: The Writings of Lord Dunsany (1989) Owlswick Press, ISBN 0-913896-16-0. Horace Curzon Plunkett's Diaries, transcribed by Kate...
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Oswald Mosley (section Marriage to Lady Cynthia Curzon)
with their stepmother, Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, the American-born second wife and widow of Lord Curzon of Kedleston. He succeeded...
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houses Flemish tapestries bought by Lord Curzon. The third floor would have been the Private Chamber, where the Lord would have retired for the night. Above...
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British expedition to Tibet (redirect from Curzon expedition)
ambitions in the East and was initiated largely by Lord Curzon, the head of the British Indian government. Curzon had long held deep concerns over Russia's advances...
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Ravensdale, a peerage created for his great-great-grandfather George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Daniel Nicholas Mosley was born on 10 October 1982...
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he had been made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order. Lady Curzon, wife of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, contributed the design of the...
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very full of interest to me". In 1905, following the resignation of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, was...
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son of the Curzon family, Lord Curzon, would come to occupy the building as the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1899-1905). Curzon described the...
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Prince Louis of Battenberg (section Sea Lord)
career lasting more than forty years, in 1912 Louis was appointed First Sea Lord, the professional head of the British naval service. With the First World...
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meters to the sixth step of the stairway. In the twentieth century, Lord Curzon had to have debris and dirt cleaned from the drainage canals after the...
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Mesopotamian Administration Committee. Besides Lord Curzon as chairman and Mark Sykes as secretary, members included Lord Alfred Milner, Charles Hardinge, Sir Arthur...
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in actions against the local resistance to their rule. However, when Lord Curzon visited the railway, he remarked that he considered its significance...
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1st Duke of Wellington, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, former...
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1919, almost a year after the end of the war, Lord Curzon succeeded Balfour as Foreign Secretary. Curzon had been a member of the 1917 Cabinet that had...
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state of its previous buildings at 140 Gower Street (headquarters) and Curzon Street House (registry, administration and technical services) led MI5 to...
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H. H. Asquith (redirect from H. H. Asquith, Lord Oxford and Asquith)
something he had not previously done. He saw Austen Chamberlain, Lord Curzon and Lord Robert Cecil on Thursday 30 November. All were united in opposition...
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certainty, like many of Curzon's other friends, that Curzon would inevitably become Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: he wrote to Curzon in 1891, 'When you...
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The Shooting Party (category Films directed by Alan Bridges)
The Shooting Party is a 1984 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate. The film is set in...
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the official language and for sanctioning the construction of roads and bridges, as well as setting up the telegraph system in the city. The South Parade...
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Michael Edwardes, High Noon of Empire: India under Curzon (1965) H. Caldwell Lipsett (1903). Lord Curzon in India: 1898–1903. R.A. Everett. The Imperial...
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