In 1870 Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston was born to Levi Zeigler Leiter [aged 35].
1887. Alexandre Cabanel [aged 63]. Portrait of Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston [aged 17].
On 22nd April 1895 George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 36] and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston [aged 25] were married.
On 20th January 1896 [her daughter] Mary Irene Curzon 2nd Baroness Ravensdale was born to [her husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 37] and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston [aged 26].
On 23rd August 1898 [her daughter] Cynthia Blanche Curzon Lady Ancoats was born to [her husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 39] and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston [aged 28]. She married 11th May 1920 Oswald Mosley 6th Baronet, son of Oswald Mosley 5th Baronet and Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote, and had issue.
On 18th March 1900 General William Lockhart [aged 58] died of malaria. His funeral occurred the following day and the service was taken by James Welldon the Bishop of Calcutta, and former headmaster of Harrow School. Lockhart's good friend and Viceroy [her husband] Lord Curzon [aged 41] attended.
On 20th March 1904 [her daughter] Alexandra Naldera Curzon was born to [her husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 45] and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston [aged 34]. Naldera baing the place in India where she was conceived. She married (1) 1925 Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe.
On 9th June 1904 [her father] Levi Zeigler Leiter [aged 69] died.
On 18th July 1906 Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston [aged 36] died at 1 Carlton Terrace, St James'.
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1909. William Logsdail [aged 49]. Portrait of Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston.
On 2nd January 1917 [her former husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 57] and Grace Elvina Hinds Marchioness Curzon Kedleston [aged 31] were married. She by marriage Baroness Ravensdale of Ravensdale in Derbyshire, Baroness Scarsdale. The difference in their ages was 26 years.
On 20th March 1925 [her former husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 66] died. Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Earl Curzon of Kedleston extinct. His nephew Richard [aged 26] succeeded 2nd Viscount Scarsdale of Scarsdale in Derbyshire, 6th Baron Scarsdale, 10th Baronet Curzon of Kedleston in Derbyshire, 10th Baronet Curzon of Nova Scotia. His daughter Mary [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Baroness Ravensdale of Ravensdale in Derbyshire.
After 20th March 1925. All Saints Church, Kedleston [Map]. Monument to [her former husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [deceased] and his first wife Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston. Table Tomb in white marble; two angels holding the crown of life lean over the effigies designed by Bertram Mackennal [aged 61].
