CURZON OF KEDLESTON

NATHANIEL, 1ST MARQUIS Brit. (Conservative) statesman; secretary for India, (1891-2); secretary for foreign affairs viceroy of India (1899-1905), which time occurred the Tibet tion (1904), unrest in Bengal movement and partition of opposition of Kitchener (1905) on tion of dual control of Ind. army to h's resignation (1906); chancellor Oxford Univ. (1907); cr. earl leader of House of Lords since president of Air Board and member Imperial War Cabinet (1916); secretary from Oct. 1919. He prominent part in the conference tween the European powers and at Lausanne in 1922-23, and pated in other international during those years. Traveled ly in Central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, the Pamirs, etc.; author of Ru ia Central Asia, 1889; Persia and_ Persian Question, 1892; Problems Far Basi, 1894; Principles and of University Reform, 1909; Poems, 1915; Subjects of the Day,