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Title: Pillars of empire, studies & impressions;
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Courtney, W. L. (William Leonard), 1850-1928 Courtney, Janet Elizabeth Hogarth, 1865-
Subjects: Statesmen -- Great Britain Imperialism Great Britain -- Biography Great Britain -- Politics and government 19th century
Publisher: London, Jarrolds
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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andbecause he represented the ideal of the younger schoolof Imperialists—efficient administration and the con-soHdation of the Empire. Lord Milner in South Africawas at the same time working for the same end ; butMilner had to deal with a nation in arms, a stubborn,independent people, who could be won only by tactand sympathy. He failed, for all his efficiency.How far did Curzon sucoeed, with the more docileEastern peoples ? He had gone out to India as the youngest, exceptDalhousie, of all the Viceroys, for he was not yet fortywhen he obtained the post which is generally wonnear the end of public life. It was a bold experimenton the part of Lord Salisbury ; but he had had unusualopportunities of judging of his young lieutenant, forCurzon had been initiated into politics as one of hisprivate secretaries and later had understudied hischief at the Foreign Office. As the eldest son of apeer who was also a parish, priest—Lord Scarsdale,the Rector of Kedleston in Derbyshire—George 298
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uyiY^f lUMt^^ LORD CURZON 299 Nathaniel Curzon (b. 1859) was sent in the naturalcourse of things to Eton. Thence he passed to BalliolCollege, Oxford, and, after a brilliant University careerwas elected Fellow of All Souls College in 1883. Hisdistinctions were not only in the Schools. He wasPresident of the Union and acquired some fame asa debater, as well as some social notoriety as a person-age. It is said that there was an Oxford parody of theverses which he addressed to the beautiful Miss MaryLeiter, whom he afterwards married ; and that two linesof it ran— My name is Nathaniel Curzon, Mary !Im a very superior person, Mary! No doubt undergraduate humour is of an irrespon-sible and effervescent kind ; but the fact remains thatthe future Viceroy had perhaps more than his fairshare of the Oxford manner, and he took himselfvery seriously. Lord Salisbury seems to have takenhim seriously too, for within five years of enteringthe House of Commons (1886) he had become UnderSecretary for

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