6 JANUARY 1933, Page 10

"With the exception of John Morley, John Addington Symonds, Jowett,

Gilbert Murray, Evan Charteris; Sylvester Gates, Lord Miclleton. Lord Kilbracken, Lord Pembroke and Lord Balfour, I never had a friend whose company gave me more pleasure than George Curzon's." —Lady Oxford in the Sunday Times. In a word Lord Curzon would have been absolutely first if there had not been ten others in front of him.

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