Lord Curzon
1859 – 1925 British Viceroy of India, Foreign Secretary
Viceroy of India whose partition of Bengal in 1905 provoked a nationalist backlash, an emblem of high imperial administration.
- Religion
- Church of England
- Affiliations
- Conservative
George Nathaniel Curzon served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, the height of confident imperial rule. A tireless administrator, he reformed the civil service, restored monuments, and staged a grand durbar, but he governed as a paternalist who saw Indians as subjects to be ruled well rather than partners. His 1905 partition of Bengal sparked a mass protest movement that fed Indian nationalism. He later served as Foreign Secretary, giving his name to the Curzon Line in eastern Europe.
Connections
- associate of Lord Salisbury — The prime minister who appointed him viceroy.
In the timeline
- 1858 The Indian Civil Service and Colonial Administration the reforming viceroy
- 1924 Austen Chamberlain becomes British foreign secretary mentioned