The Honourable Edward Curzon
(1812-1885)
27 March 1861

Volume 3, page 7, sitting number 2726.

The Honourable Edward Cecil Curzon was born on 8 November 1812, the second son of the Honourable Robert Curzon. His mother was Harriet Anne née Bisshopp, from 1829 Baroness de la Zouche. His paternal grandfather was 1st Viscount Curzon of Penn.

On 5 May 1834 he married Amelia Sophie Charlotte Daniell, daughter of James Daniell. The couple had four daughters and two sons.

The family appear on the 1861 census living at Scarsdale House in Kensington. Edward Curzon made an unusually long entry listing his various professions and sources of income, which included 'Registrar of Designs' (over which the enumerator wrote 'Civil Servant'), 'Barrister-at-Law not in actual practice. Landed Proprietor. Fund Holder'. Mrs Curzon had eight servants to run her house, including a butler, a footman and a groom.

The Honourable Edward Curzon died, aged 72, on 12 February 1885 at Scarsdale House in Kensington. According to an obituary that appeared in the Derby Daily Telegraph (14 February 1885, 'he was educated at Harrow and at Christ Chruch, Oxford. He was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-inn in Easter term, 1840, and held for some years the office of Registrar of the Copyright of Designs, to which he was appointed in 1842, and from which he had lately retired. In 1863 he was appointed Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies. Mr Curzon, who was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for Middlesex and a magistrate for Westminster, married, in 1834, Amelia Sophia Charlotte, sixth daughter of Mr James Daniell, by whom he had a family of two sons and four daughters.'