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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/109
TitleGeorge Nathaniel Curzon
Extent3 items
Date1907-1914
DescriptionCorrespondence from George Nathaniel Curzon [1859-1925, politician, traveller, and viceroy of India].

/1 Letter from Curzon to Oliver Lodge, written from 1 Carlton House Terrace, London, dated 7 August 1907. Curzon responds to Lodge's invitation to stay when he is in Birmingham.

/2 Letter from Curzon to Oliver Lodge, written from Las Palmas, dated 8 December 1908. Curzon asks for Lodge's opinion on the question of degrees for women.

/3 Letter from Curzon to Oliver Lodge, written from Hackwood, Basingstoke, dated 15 November 1914, with envelope. Curzon concurs in Lodge's 'righteous wrath', complaining of 'official pedantry' after his footman was rejected for military service due to his eyesight and a slight varicose vein.
Access StatusOpen
Administrative HistoryGeorge Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859โ€“1925) was politician, traveller, and viceroy of India. At the time of these letters, he was appointed chancellor of Oxford University in March 1907 and joined the House of Lords in January 1908.

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