CURZON 581 Lord Salisbury 1885; M.P. (Conservative) for Southport div. of Lancashire, 1886-89; Under Sec. of State for India 1891-92; Under Sec. of State for Foreign AfFairs 1895-98. P.C. 29 June 1895. O" n Nov. 1898 he was cr. BARON CURZON OF KEDLESTON co. Derby [.].{f) G.C.I.E. 3 Dec. 1898; Viceroy and Governor Gen. of India 1898 (assuming office Jan. 1899) till I904,() and 1904-05; Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1904-05; Hon. D.C.L. Oxon 1904; Hon. Fellow of Balliol Coll., Romanes Lecturer, and Chanc. of Oxford Univ., 1907; Hon. LL.D. Cambridge 1907, of Manchester 1908, and of Glasgow 191 1; Lord Rector of Glasgow Univ. 1908; a Rep. Peer [I.] since 1908; a Trustee of the Nat. Gallery, and Pres. of the Royal Geog. Soc. 1 9 1 1 . On 2 Nov. 191 1,(^) he was cr. EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON co. Derby, with rem. to the heirs male of his body, VISCOUNT SCARSDALE of Scarsdale co. Derby, with rem. in default of male issue to his father. Baron (') This creation follows (an interval of 30 [!] years having taken place) the creation, 21 Dec. 1868, of the Barony of Rathdonnell [I.]. Soon after that date a bill (the Royal permission having previously been obtained) passed the House of Lords to put a stop to these anomalous creations. This bill, however, failed to pass the House of Commons, so that the legal power (conferred by the act of the Irish Union) remains, though the general impression was that (in these circumstances) it would never again be acted upon. See The Genealogiu, N.S., vol. v, for several articles, by G.E.C., on the Peerage of Ireland at and since the Union. From the creation of Rathdonnell [I.], in 1868, there have been, down to Dec. 1898, eleven extinctions of Irish peerages which had existed before the Union (Howden extinct in 1873, Bloomfield in 1879, ^"'^ Clermont in 1898 were post Union creations), viz., Moira in 1868, Strangford in 1869, Blayney in 1874, Charleville in 1875, Aldborough in 1875, Ongley in 1877, Nettervillc in 1882, Rokeby in 1883, Ranelagh in 1885, Bantry in 1891, and Lismore in 1898. These, as well as the Barony of Gardner and the Earldom of Milltown, both of which were unclaimed for more than a year (one from Nov. 1883 and the other from March 1891), made a total of thirteen peerages available for new creations, to which may apparently be added one of the two Peerages of Kilwarden, which, existing separately at the time of the Union, be- came extinct together in 1 830, and of which only one was made use of in a new creation. The peerage of Curzon of Kedleston, however, "was created not in lieu of the extinction of any three peerages, but in virtue of the number of Peerages of Ireland [i.e., those not held with any Peerage of England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom] being below the number of a hundred, according to the provisions in art. 4 of the Act of Union. The total number of Irish peerages at present [I.e., in Dec. 1898] existing, which have not an hereditary seat in the House of Lords is, including Curzon, 89." {ex inform. Sir A. Vicars, sometime Ulster). No Irish peerage has been created since 1898. With reference to a Peerage [I.] being, if unclaimed for above a year, available as an extinction for a new creation, it may be observed that the Barony of Wallscourt [I.], which was more than a year unclaimed (there being in fact no heir to it from 28 Mar. 1803 to 19 Jan. 1806), was not so acted upon. C") He came home in 1904, Lord Ampthill (Gov. of Madras) acting as Gov. Gen. in his absence from 30 Apr. to 13 Dec. V.G. <^) This was a Coronation peerage, but the patent was delayed till 2 Nov. For a list of Coronation peerages see vol. ii. Appendix F.
