A health officer was appointed in 1898, the city was divided into four wards for better coordination and the Victoria Hospital was inaugurated in 1900 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy and Governor-General of British India.
One branch of the Curzons from Notre-Dame-de-Courson accompanied their Ferrers overlord to England.
After their stewardship, the lordship descended in a relatively uncertain manner to the Curzons of Kedleston Hall until finally coming under the lordship of the Hunloke Family.
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Fane was born at Curzon House, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, the second and youngest son of Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Adelaide Ida, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe.
Victoria Hospital, inaugurated on 8 December 1900 by Lord Curzon the then Viceroy of India, started as a health centre with 140 bed strength, is now the second largest Hospital in India accommodating more than 1000 patients at a time.
Forrester, Duncan B., Caste and Christianity: Attitudes and Policies on Caste of Anglo-Saxon Protestant Missions in India (London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Curzon Press and Humanities Press, 1980).
Curzon was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart and Schubert.
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Curzon studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the prestigious Macfarren Gold Medal in 1924, at the age of 17, Curzon was the youngest pupil ever to have been accepted into the senior school.
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During his premiership, Edward Heath invited musician friends, such as Clifford Curzon and the Amadeus Quartet, to perform at either Chequers or 10 Downing Street.
It was chosen to be shown at Curzon, London, the first documentary directed by an Albanian director to be selected.
During the Bengali Language Movement, 1948–1956, Curzon Hall was the location of various significant events.
From his second marriage with Grace Wakeling, he is the father of Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon (former wife of John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, and mother of Isabella Calthorpe and Cressida Bonas).
Baird's London house - 36 Curzon Street - came to him during an evening of dining and drinking with it's then owner Sir George Chetwynd, another man of the turf.
He lived at Rise Park, Hull, and 43, Curzon Street, London and in 1893 he acquired Sigglesthorne Hall, Holderness.
A striking feature of the album is the cover artwork, which was produced by renowned designer Storm Thorgerson (with Peter Curzon and photographer Rupert Truman), who has also produced artwork for such memorable albums as The Division Bell by Pink Floyd and Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta.
Mary Irene Curzon, Baroness Ravensdale, CBE (20 January 1896 – 9 February 1966) was the eldest child of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter, a daughter of Levi Ziegler Leiter.
Her first role with Curzon was Sybil Cunningham in The White Chrysanthemum at the Criterion in 1905 (starring with Rutland Barrington and Henry Lytton) and then on tour.
More recently, Curzon was interviewed about her appearance as Louise in Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. in the documentary Dalekmania (1995).
In the 1920s Tyagi helped resolve, with the help of Maulana Mohammad Ali, a misunderstanding that had arisen between Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru (See Durga Das, India From Curzon to Nehru & After,London, 1969, pp 109–110).
They had two sons and two daughters; the second- but only surviving- son, (Kevin) Esmond Peter (1943-1985), married Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, third daughter of the 6th Earl Howe, whose daughter by her second husband, property magnate and scion of baronets John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is the actress Isabella Calthorpe.
From 1842 Curzon was joint British Commissioner in Erzurum as part of the British-Turkish-Persian-Russian boundary commission sitting to delineate the Turkish and Persian frontier.
Sarah Anne Curzon's daughter was one of the first females to receive a B.A. from the University of Toronto.
The matter of the status of Mosul was deferred, since Curzon refused to be budged on the British position that the area was part of Iraq.
After his marriage in 1827 to Caroline Esther Curzon daughter of Lord Scarsdale they lived at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent for a while before he took up the challenge of running the estate near Kimbolton in Bedfordshire.