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Award Curzon Medal; silver

Features

Location United Kingdom
Type Award medals › Military awards
Year 1899
Composition Silver
Diameter 51 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
459512
References BHM# 3643
Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes).
, Eimer# 1835
Christopher Eimer. British Commemorative Medals and their Values. London, United Kingdom (2 volumes).
, Pudd# 899.1
Robert P. Puddester; 1987. Catalogue of British India Historical Medals: Including Temperance, Shooting and Sporting Medals, Badges, and Miscellaneous Items. R.C. Senior.

Commemorative issue

Viceroy of India - Lord & Lady Curzon

Obverse

Conjoined busts of George Nathaniel Curzon with Mary Curzon left; titles around.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
★ LORD CURZON OF KEDELSTON G.M.S.I. G.M.I.E. VICEROY OF INDIA ★ LADY CURZON OF KEDELSTON ★ 1899
ALLAN WYON

Engraver: Allan Wyon

Reverse

Curzon coat of arms with female supporters.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
PRESENTED • BY • HIS • EXCELLENCY • THE • GOVERNOR • GENERAL
.LET. CURZON. HOLDE. WHAT. CURZON. HELDE.

Engraver: Allan Wyon

Comments

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman.
As Viceroy of India, he is noted for the creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam. As Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, he drew the Curzon Line as the proposed eastern frontier of Poland. He was passed over as Prime Minister in 1923 in favour of Stanley Baldwin. His character polarised opinion amongst his contemporaries, "sow[ing] gratitude and resentment along his path with equally lavish hands".[1] He quarrelled endlessly and his arrogance and inflexibility made even more enemies. Critics have been negative in contrasting his enormous talents and energy on behalf of British imperialism with his mixed results and unrealized ambitions.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
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