Society, of which institution he is the patron, expressive of the grateful sense entertained by its members of the “general attention he had at all times paid to the petitions of the poor, and the prompt and effectual measures adopted by him for their relief; in which he was most powerfully assisted by his amiable and accomplished lady, who was ever the kind and constant friend of the widow and the orphan.”
Sir Charles Hainilton married, April 19, 1803, Henrietta Martha, only daughter of the late George Drummond, of Stanmore, co. Middlesex, Esq. and Banker of Charing Cross.
Country seat.– Issing, near Midhurst, Sussex.
Town residence.– 27, Curzon Street.
HON. HENRY CURZON,
Vice-admiral of the White.
The noble family of Curzon is very ancient, being descended from Giraline de Curzon, whose name appears in the roll of Battle Abbey, among the nobles and gentry who came into England with William the Norman, in whose favor he no doubt stood high; for we find upon record the manor of Locking, co. Berks, and that of Fishead in Oxfordshire, granted him by the Conqueror, whose son Henry I. also conferred upon him several considerable estates, and among others the manor of Kedleston in Derbyshire, at which place his descendants have been seated ever since the reign of Edward I.
From Giraline’s second son, Richard, descended Nathaniel Curzon, who was raised to the dignity of the peerage by the title of Baron Scarsdale, of Scarsdale, co. Derby, April 9, 1761, and subsequently appointed Chairman of the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords. His Lordship married Lady Caroline Colyear, eldest daughter of Charles, Earl of Portmore, by Juliana, Duchess Dowager of Leeds, and had issue; Nathaniel, by whom he was succeeded in the title; Henry the subject of this sketch; and several other children[1].
- ↑ At the celebrated battle of Waterloo, the Hon. William Curzon, son of the present peer, and Dep. Ass. Adj. Gen. to the army in the Netherlands, displayed the most chivalrous ardor. Riding along the field, with
