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Curzon and Romanes
* Oxford lectures on history, 1904 – 1923, Oxford, The Clarendon Press 1904 – 23, which includes " Frontiers ", by Lord Curzon, the Romanes lecture for 1907, " Biological analogies in history ", by Theodore Roosevelt, the Romanes lecture for 1910, " The imperial peace " by Sir W. M. Ramsay, the Romanes lecture for 1913 and " Montesquieu " by Sir Courtenay Ilbert, the Romanes lecture for 1904.

Curzon and 1907
Montagu Curzon ( 1846 – 1907 ), eighth son of the first Earl ( and eldest from his second marriage ), was a Colonel in the Rifle Brigade and Member of Parliament.
* 1907 Lord Curzon — Frontiers
The theatre played more musical comedies beginning in 1903, including the Frank Curzon and Isabel Jay hits Miss Hook of Holland ( 1907, its matinee version, Little Miss Hook of Holland was performed by children for children ), King of Cadonia ( 1908 ), and The Balkan Princess ( 1910 ), and later the World War I hits, Broadway Jones ( 1914 ), Carminetta ( 1917 ), and Yes, Uncle!

Curzon and ",
Curzon had expansive ambitions and was not much happier with Bonar Law, whose foreign policy was based on " retrenchment and withdrawal ", than he had been with Lloyd George.
* Curzon, " The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus ", 1897, The Royal Geographical Society.
* Curzon, " Travels with a Superior Person ", London, Sidgwick & Jackson.
" George Nathaniel Curzon: Superior Geographer ", The Geographical Journal, 146, 2 ( 1980 ): 203 – 209, Abstract
Indeed, Sisko would call Jadzia " old man ", the same nickname he had used with Curzon.
* In the first-season episode " Dax ", the previous host Curzon Dax is accused of murder.
When the young Dax is murdered by an alien known as " The Albino ", Curzon joins Kang, Kor and Koloth ( whose firstborns have also been murdered by Albino ) in their oath of blood vengeance.
Historian Nabil-i-A ` zam reports the " highest terms of beauty ", Lord Curzon writes " beauty and the female sex also lent their consecration to the new creed and the heroism … the lovely but ill-fated poetess of Qazvín ".
A young version of Lucy Lane appears in " Monkey Fun ", an episode of Superman: The Animated Series, where she is voiced by Aria Curzon.

Curzon and By
By 1922, the main focus of GCCS was on diplomatic traffic, with " no service traffic ever worth circulating " and so, at the initiative of Lord Curzon, it was transferred from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office.
By coincidence, George Nathaniel Curzon, the most illustrious member of this family became Viceroy of India in 1898 and consequently resident of both houses.
By showing in St. James's, Wilde was targeting a fashionable, upper-middle class audience and Wilde maps out the geography of their world, Grosvenor Square, Curzon Street, the park, with precision.
* India under Curzon and after, By Lovat Fraser, Published by William Heinemann, London-1911. Digital Rare Book:
By 1923, having to choose between Baldwin and Lord Curzon, George V decided that " the requirements of the present times " obliged him to appoint a Prime Minister from the Commons.
By 1900, Elles was Military Secretary to Lord Curzon and Trenchard ( recently promoted to captain ) sent a priority signal to Elles requesting that he be permitted to rejoin his unit overseas.
By 1915, the original tenant, Robert Davidson, had departed and the house was let to George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.
By May 1919 also, the Directorate of Intelligence had changed hands, on the authority of Lord Curzon ( acting Foreign Secretary while Arthur Balfour was negotiating in Paris ) from Aubrey's chief General MacDonogh to Sir Basil Thomson of Scotland Yard Special Branch i. e. from military to civilian in view of the Bolshevik threat on the home front.

Curzon and Lord
Among them were the minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, which was held on 5 December 1918.
In 1919, the Cabinet's Secret Service Committee, chaired by Lord Curzon, recommended that a peace-time codebreaking agency should be created, a task given to the then-Director of Naval Intelligence, Hugh Sinclair.
When the Lord Curzon ( Viceroy 1899-1905 ) took control of higher education and then split the large province of Bengal into a largely Hindu western half and " Eastern Bengal and Assam ," a largely Muslim eastern half.
* 1859 – Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India ( d. 1925 )
The real impetus though was provided by the partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon, the Governor-General of India, into East Bengal on the one hand ( the area that was eventually to become Bangladesh in 1971 ) and West Bengal and Orissa on the other.
Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India visited the state in 1901 and measured the pologround as 225 yards long and 110 yards wide.
Even before Scott's death was known, Amundsen had been offended by what he felt was a " sneering toast "' from RGS President Lord Curzon, at a meeting held supposedly to honour the polar victor.
Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary of that time, was the chief negotiator for the Allies, while Eleftherios Venizelos negotiated on behalf of Greece.
* February 12 – Viceroy of India Lord Curzon creates the new North-West Frontier Province in the north of the Punjab region, bordering Afghanistan.
* January 11 – Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman and Viceroy of India ( d. 1925 )
* January 6 – Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India.
The committee presented a draft proposal to Lord Curzon on 31 December 1898.
It was also at the 15 February meeting that Lord Curzon proposed the creation of an Air Ministry.
The first Air Board came into being on 15 May 1916 with Lord Curzon as its chairman.
In January 1917 the Prime Minister David Lloyd George replaced the chairman Lord Curzon with Lord Cowdray.
Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by Lord Curzon to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged the Swadeshi movement and the Boycott movement.
This was reflected in the make-up of his five-member war cabinet, which included three Conservatives, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Curzon ; Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, Andrew Bonar Law ; and Minister without Portfolio, Lord Milner.
* Lord Curzon of KedlestonLord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords
His term as Commander-in-Chief ( 1902 – 09 ) of the Army in India saw him quarrel with another eminent proconsul, the Viceroy Lord Curzon, who eventually resigned.
were supported by the Viceroy Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who had originally lobbied for Kitchener's appointment, the two men eventually came into conflict.

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