On 16th May 1885 Grace Elvina Hinds Marchioness Curzon Kedleston was born to Joseph Monroe Hinds [aged 43] in Decatur Alabama.
On 22nd April 1895 [her future husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 36] and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston [aged 25] were married.
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 future husband] Lord Curzon [aged 41] attended.
In 1905 [her father] Joseph Monroe Hinds [aged 63] died.
On 2nd November 1911 [her future husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 52] was created 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston, 1st Viscount Scarsdale of Scarsdale in Derbyshire, 1st Baron Ravensdale of Ravensdale in Derbyshire. The Viscountcy was created with remainder in default of heirs male to the heirs male of his father. The Barony was created with remainder in default of heirs male to his daughters. See Viscountcies of England Created with a Special Remainder.
1916. Philip de László [aged 46]. Portrait of Grace Elvina Hinds Marchioness Curzon Kedleston [aged 30].
On 23rd March 1916 Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon 4th Baron Scarsdale [aged 84] died. His son [her future husband] George [aged 57] succeeded 5th Baron Scarsdale, 9th Baronet Curzon of Kedleston in Derbyshire, 9th Baronet Curzon of Nova Scotia.
On 2nd January 1917 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 11th May 1920 Oswald Mosley 6th Baronet [aged 23] and [her step-daughter] Cynthia Blanche Curzon Lady Ancoats [aged 21] were married. Following their marriage he is alledged to have had affairs with his wife's younger sister Alexandra Naldera Curzon [aged 16] and his wife's step-mother Grace Elvina Hinds Marchioness Curzon Kedleston [aged 34]. She the daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 61] and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston.
Cynthia Blanche Curzon Lady Ancoats: On 23rd August 1898 she was born to George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston. On 16th May 1933 Cynthia Blanche Curzon Lady Ancoats died.
Alexandra Naldera Curzon: On 20th March 1904 she was born to George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston. Naldera baing the place in India where she was conceived. In 1925 Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe and she were married. She the daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston. In 1955 Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe and Alexandra Naldera Curzon were divorced. On 7th August 1995 Alexandra Naldera Curzon died. She was buried at All Saints Church, Kedleston [Map].
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On 28th June 1921 [her husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 62] was created 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Grace Elvina Hinds Marchioness Curzon Kedleston [aged 36] by marriage Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston.
In 1925 Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe [aged 37] and [her step-daughter] Alexandra Naldera Curzon [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of [her husband] George Nathaniel Curzon 1st Marquess Kedleston [aged 65] and Mary Victoria Leiter Baroness Curzon Kedleston.
On 20th March 1925 [her 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 [her step-daughter] Mary [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Baroness Ravensdale of Ravensdale in Derbyshire.
Before 14th April 1925 John Singer Sargent [aged 69]. His last portrait the sitter being Grace Elvina Hinds Marchioness Curzon Kedleston [aged 39].
On 29th June 1958 Grace Elvina Hinds Marchioness Curzon Kedleston [aged 73] died.
Red Cross and Berlin Embassy. I pressed on towards the Embassy just as Lord Derby's car jerked forward only to be stopped and cheered by the dense crowd before jerking forward again, while an hysterical Englishwoman, her head wreathed in an infirmiire' s veil, clambered on to the roof of a taxi-cab and yelled out "Rule Britannia". The crowd was so great that it was some minutes before I could squeeze through die few yards that separated me from the gates of the Embassy. In the courtyard were Grace Curzon, Victoria Primrose1, the two young Rothschild belle-soeurs. Sir David Henderson, Charlie Montagu and two men in khaki (unidentified). As it was impossible to pierce the crowd on the Faubourg side we went back into the Embassy and out, through the garden, on the other side to the Avenue Gabriel. The Alsace statue in the Place de la Concorde was completely hidden with French flags and the crowd grew denser every minute, but we managed to get through and across the bridge leading to the Chambre. Once there, we struggled round to the back door (which is the only one the deputies ever use). Clémenceau had just passed in and was now making his speech. We were eager to see him and quite resigned to a long wait in the crowd outside. The doors into the cour d'honneur appeared to be hermetically closed, but presendly a little tiny jib door (cut out of one of the larger doors) opened and let out a troop of etudiants, shouting "On l'a vu. On l'a vu ", referring to Clemenceau. The police were forcibly ejecting them but not before they had picked up a litde machinegun and this they carried off with force cris and many loud "reculesz donc" to us and to the assembled crowd. Just then I had the good luck to be recognized by General Berckheim, who was on guard at the gate on horseback (his wife is Madame de Pourtalès'2 eldest daughter), and, thanks to a few words from him, the sergeant passed us, in Indian file, through the little jib door into the courtyard. Here we identified Clémenceau's car standing in front of one or two others. We waited in comparative comfort for fully half an hour and then one or two deputés came out, followed, soon after, by Clémenceau himself, Le Tigre looked incredibly fresh and vigorous for his seventy-eight years, short, square, alert, with bristling iron-grey hair and a white moustache. Victoria, who was, of course, well known to him, stepped forward and he shook hands with her and indeed with all of us, but I don^t think he had the faintest idea who we all were, until the belle-sœrs described themselves as Baronnes de Rothschild (which was certainly informing). Inspired by their example, I ventured on "amie de Violet Cecil",3 which transformed perfunctory greeting into friendly enquiries about Violet. He then sprang lightly into his little car, which stole unobtrusively away through another side door.
Note 1. Lady Victoria Primrose, daughter of the Ambassador, Lord Derby.
Note 2. The Marquise de PourtalSs had been a celebrated beauty under the Third Einpire. She was a friend of my mother's who when in Paris had been invited by Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie to visit Compligne in her company.
Note 3. Violet Maxse, married first Lord Edward Cecil, and secondly Viscount Milner, and is to-day editor of the National Review,