CURZON OF KEDLESTON, GEORGE NATHANIEL, EARL, a British states man; born in Kedleston, England, in 1859. He was educated at Eton and Bal liol College, Oxford. In 1885 he was as sistant private secetary to the Marquis of Salisbury; in 1891 and 1892, Under-Sec retary of State for India; and from 1895 to 1898, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. From 1899 to 1905 he was Viceroy and Governor-General of India. He represented the Southport di vision of southwest Lancashire in Parlia ment, from 1886 to 1898. In 1908 he was Irish Representative Peer, and since 1916 Leader of the House of Lords. In 1915 1916 he was Lord Privy Seal; in 1916 President of the Air Board, later in that year becoming Lord President of the Council, and also member of the Im perial War Cabinet. In 1920 he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In 1895 he married Mary Victoria, daughter of L. Z. Leiter, Washington, D. C., who died in 1906. He traveled ex tensively in central Asia, Persia, Afghan istan, Siam, Indo-China, and Korea, and received in 1895 the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, of which so ciety he was president from 1911 to 1914. Among the many other honors
which have been bestowed upon him were a fellowship in the British Academy (1908) ; a fellowship in All Souls' Col lege, Oxford (1883) ; honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford (1904), Cambridge (1907), Manchester (1908), Glasgow (1911), and Durham (1913). He was also made Romanes Lecturer at Oxford University in 1907, Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1908, Honorary Fellow of Balliol College in 1907, Rede Lecturer of Cambridge University in 1913, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1904 to 1905, and Trustee of the National Gallery in 1911. He wrote "Russia in Central Asia" (1889) ; "Persia and the Persian Question" (1892) ; "Problems of the Far East" (1894) ; "Lord Curzon in India" (1906); "Principles and Methods of University Reform" (1909) ; "Modern Parliamentary Eloquence" (1913) ; "War Poems and Other Translations" (1915); "Subjects of the Day" (1915); etc.