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Lot Essay
The inscription reads:
This legacy was left to
Assheton Curzon Esq. by his sister in law
Mary Grosvenor who died Feb. 9 1774- Which
Alas! may serve as a token of remembrance of two kind
Sisters, Ms. Dorothy Curzon surviving her, only
14 days to lament her loss.
Assheton, 1st Viscount Curzon (1730-1820) was the second son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th baronet, and Mary, daughter of Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd baronet. Curzon was MP for Clitheroe, Lancashire, from 1754-1777, and again from 1792-1794. In 1794 he was raised to the Peerage as Baron Curzon, and in 1802 made Viscount Curzon. Lord Curzon's elder brother, Nathaniel, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804), was an early patron of Robert Adam and builder of Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, Adam's most important architectural work in England.
This legacy was left to
Assheton Curzon Esq. by his sister in law
Mary Grosvenor who died Feb. 9 1774- Which
Alas! may serve as a token of remembrance of two kind
Sisters, Ms. Dorothy Curzon surviving her, only
14 days to lament her loss.
Assheton, 1st Viscount Curzon (1730-1820) was the second son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th baronet, and Mary, daughter of Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd baronet. Curzon was MP for Clitheroe, Lancashire, from 1754-1777, and again from 1792-1794. In 1794 he was raised to the Peerage as Baron Curzon, and in 1802 made Viscount Curzon. Lord Curzon's elder brother, Nathaniel, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804), was an early patron of Robert Adam and builder of Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, Adam's most important architectural work in England.