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Grace Elvina Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, GBE (née Hinds, formerly Duggan; 14 April 1879 – 29 June 1958) was an American-born British marchioness and the second wife of George Curzon, former Viceroy of India.
Early life. Born Cynthia Blanche Curzon at Kedleston Hall, she was the second daughter of Hon. George Curzon (later Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) and his first wife, Mary Victoria Leiter, an American department-store heiress. As the daughter of an Earl (and later a Marquess ), she was styled Lady Cynthia beginning in 1911. Marriage and family.
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy ...
Grace Elvina, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston. ON VIEW. John Singer Sargent's last completed painting, and one of the few portraits he consented to paint in the final decade or so of his career, was Grace Elvina, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston.
25 de set. de 2021 · Grace Elvina Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, GBE (née Trillia Hinds; 16 May 1885 – 29 June 1958) was a United States-born British marchioness and the second wife of George Curzon, British parliamentarian, cabinet minister, and former Viceroy of India. view all. Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston's Timeline. Genealogy Directory:
- Decatur, AL
- May 16, 1885
- AL
- June 29, 1958
29 de out. de 2023 · Curzon led British strategy in Mesopotamia (Iraq), Persia (Iran) and the Ottoman Empire, negotiated Egyptian independence and the division of Mandatory Palestine. In 1920 he proposed a series of coercive and so-called ‘Indian’ tactics to suppress Irish independence.
Foi governador-geral da Índia (1899-1905) e depois secretário de estado no Foreign and Commonwealth Office, cargo equivalente ao de ministro dos negócios estrangeiros. Foi também líder do Partido Conservador britânico e cavaleiro da Ordem da Jarreteira. Deteve numerosos cargos políticos e acadêmicos, tendo escrito numerosas obras sobre geopolítica.
