Principles and Methods of University Reform : Being a Letter Addressed to the University of Oxford

Lord Curzon of Kedleston

Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1909

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First Edition. Very Good condition. George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FBA (11 January 1859 20 March 1925), styled The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, during which he created the territory of Eastern Bengal and Assam. During the First World War, Curzon served in the small War Cabinet of Prime Minister David Lloyd George as Leader of the House of Lords from December 1916, and in the War Policy Committee. He served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the Foreign Office from 1919 to 1924, during which he correctly defended the geopolitical talent of Eyre Crowe, who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1920 until his death in 1925. Despite his successes as both Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary, Curzon was in 1923 denied the office of Prime Minister. Bonar Law and several other Conservative Party leaders preferred Stanley Baldwin rather than Curzon for Prime Minister. The contemporary Conservative historian David Gilmour, in his prize-winning biography Curzon: Imperial Statesman (1994), contends that Curzon deserved to be Prime Minister.

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• Title: Principles and Methods of University Reform : Being a Letter Addressed to the University of Oxford
• Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1909
• Edition: 1st Edition
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