DEATH OF LADY CURZON

Evening Star, Issue 12870, 20 July 1906, Page 6

DEATH OF LADY CURZON

Press Association—By .Telegraph-^opyrigHt:

... . . LONDON, July. 19. ; I*dy Curzon, of Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, ex-Viceroy of India; is; dead. (Received July 20, at 8.35 a.nt)

Lady Curzon's death was the outcome of her illness of two years ago. "[The late Curzon was a daughter of the late Mr-Levi Z. Loiter, of Chicago and Washington (Maryland), who was a typical, self-made American, having risen frpm a clerk m a country store to the ranks'of the millionaires!. Mies Marv Victoria Letter was married to Lord Curzon, then .the-Hon. G. Nathaniel Cur/.on, in April, 1895. It was a marriage of pure affection, and prove,! most happy. Lady Ciirzon bad beautv, brains, and aH the self-confidence of l»er nation. She proved an admirable helpmate to her hufiband, when, as her fellowcountrymen said, she became "Queen of India." It is reported that Mrs Leiter remarked to some friends during the King's Coronation festivities at. Delhi that die never knew what a great woman her daughter Mary was until she saw lier riding °an ekphant. In 1904 Lord and Lady Curzon went to England for a holiday, but thejr return to India was delayed owing to the dangerous illness of Lady ; Curxon. Lord Curzon cancelled till his engagements, and constituted himself the tireless nurse of his wife.. In December, 1904, be resumed office, but resigned his Vice-royalty in August 1905, and left for England after receiving the. Prince and Princess of Wales at Bombay on November 9. Joseph Leiter, whti ia 1898 created a sensation by attempting in create " a corner" of the world's wheat, is a brother of tho late Lady Curzon.]