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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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