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Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon

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Lord Curzon died in March 1820, aged 90. His son from his first marriage, the Hon. Penn Assheton Curzon, had predeceased him, and he was therefore succeeded by the latter's third but eldest surviving son by his marriage to
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Lord Curzon married firstly Esther Hanmer, daughter of William Hanmer and Elizabeth Jennens (sister of
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from 1754 to 1777 and from 1792 to 1794. In the latter year he was raised to the peerage as
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His daughter, the Hon. Charlotte Curzon, married Dugdale Stratford Dugdale of the historic
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for earlier history of the family). He was educated at
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Assheton Curzon
The Right Honourable

House of Lords
The 2nd Viscount Curzon
Member of Parliament
Clitheroe
Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor
Nathaniel Curzon
John Parker
Tory
Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet
Tory
Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Baronet
Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet
Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale
Viscount Scarsdale
Brasenose College, Oxford
Clitheroe
Hagley Hall
Penn, Buckinghamshire
Francis Chantrey
Charles Jennens
Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet
Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet
Sophia Howe
suo jure
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
Richard
Earl Howe

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