George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FBA (January 11, 1859 – March 20, 1925), was styled as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911, and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, is a British Conservative statesman who serve as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.

During his time as viceroy, Lord Curzon creates the territory of Eastern Bengal and Assam.

He resigns after a political dispute with the British military commander Lord Kitchener

During the First World War, Curzon serves in the small War Cabinet of Prime Minister David Lloyd George as Leader of the House of Lords (from December 1916), as well as the War Policy Committee

He serves as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the Foreign Office from 1919 to 1924.

Despite his successes as both viceroy and foreign secretary, in 1923 Curzon is denied the office of prime minister.

Bonar Law and other Conservative Party leaders prefer to have Stanley Baldwin rather than Curzon as prime minister and these views are made known to King George V.

David Gilmour, in his biography Curzon: Imperial Statesman (1994), will contend that Curzon deserved the top position.

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