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...Granddaughters of Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, who was fifth Earl of Howe and one of Britain's best-known racing drivers between the Wars, and distant cousins of George Nathaniel Curzon, first Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, who as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1920 devised the Curzon Line as a boundary between Russia and Poland...
...Baroness Ravensdale, 62, vice-president of the National Association of Girls' Clubs and Mixed Clubs, and daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, onetime Viceroy of India...
Died. The Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (nee Grace Elvina Hinds of Decatur, Ala.), 80, daughter of a onetime U.S. Minister to Brazil, second wife of the late Marquess Curzon, who was British Viceroy and Governor General of India (1898-1905) and Foreign Secretary (1919-24); near Dover, England. First female recipient of the Grand Cross of the British Empire (conferred on her in 1922 for war work), Lady Curzon was a significant arc in titled circles, an owner of race horses whose brown and pink colors were once familiar at Ascot and Newmarket, and a friend of Lady Randolph Churchill...
...though I prefer the Republican, and can be sour or sweet, bellicose or pacific, to order." Lord Scarsdale, 57, of the famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they don't give their background, we don't even answer them") and two who claimed a royal bar sinister, the applicants for the TV job totaled...
...glass eyes of the slightly moth-eaten stuffed bear on the staircase of London's St. James's Club should have bugged out last week. The ghost of suavely arrogant, egg-domed ex-Member George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and British Foreign Secretary of the 1920s, must have shivered in its shroud. Founded in 1757, St. James's is famed for its claret, its caricatures by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the exclusiveness of its membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last...