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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-06-30, Page 10510 ,ang t mpa Tr in w ill trr age VI! awley built7�ti / house.... Page sS m page 64 exigencies of the moment. He was born in 1859, eldest son of med. It WBS in the Gooding the fourth Baron Scarsdale, ily for at least 12 years rector of Kedleston. His ore Hawley came on the earldom was a Coronation e. Aftpr Curzon, title honor from Geo_rgeV in..14.11, sed in 1935' to • -Arthur He Iefi no son, and the title gow, of Toronto, a became extinct at his death in hew of Curzon, and the 1925. ce was acquired in 1949 by The Curzon family tree fred Larder. He sold to begins with Robert de Cur- nley Freeman, present zon, who landed in England upant. with William of Norway in rthur Wardlaw Curzon, 1066. Skipping over eight d son of Colonel the Hon. centuries or so, one comes to est George Curzon, and the earl of whom Arthur ndsonof an earl, was born Wardlaw Curzon was a England in 1861, when the grandson, namely, Richard on road mansion he was William Penn Curzon, first wn had just been built. He Earl Howe. This earldom was educated at a private created in 1821. ool and, like many other The first Earl Howe was unger sons of titled succeeded by. George ilies, went into the army Augustus Frederick Lewis. d served briefly in India. Sixth of the first earl's nind came to Canada in his 20s, sons was Colonel the -Hon. ich is to say, some time in Ernest George Curzon. Far 1880s, He worked on a removed from the line of m near Galt, to learn succession, he was the father ething of the Ontario of Arthur Wardlaw Curzon, as thods. Then he went to well as two older sons and two nitoba, and while there daughters. quired some land still held Strangely enough, a niece his death. of Arthur Curzon came into n 1893 he acquired the the title. His eldest brother, operty on the Huron road, Ernest Charles Penn, had a d he may have been here daughter, Lorna Katherine, some little time previous. who after one marriage 1894 he married Charlotte became in 1927 the third wife dcliffe, daughter of Mr. of the fourth Earl Howe, d Mrs, Richard Radcliffe, Richard George Penn Cur- oderich. Mrs. Curzon died zon, and so Countess Howe. 1915, and their only The earl died two years after tighter, Adeline, in 1929. this marriage. an obituary article, a After the death of his wife paper stated that Mr. and daughter, Arthur Curzon zon was "a first cousin of continued to live in the Huron late Lord Curzon, famous road house "with his ser- lishdiplomat." In fact, he vants,” a newspaper article a distant cousin. George stated, until his death in aniel Curzon, of Goderich hospital in his 74th ston, famed as year. In the years before his ernor-General of India illness, he did a great deaf of 1898 to 1905, and later a entertaining in the spacious tuber of the Asquith and house. He was a member of yd George Cabinets, St. George's (Anglican) uld have been Prime church, a lover of organ ter of Britain, it was music and of flowers. He but for certain political seldom 'drove a horse and loeY (Curzon) f the 10 fireplaces originally used to heat the es others closome f marble. Some are In Gader� h hom never owned a car, but did possess one of the first radio sets in the area. An oil painting of Lord Goderich, for whom the town was named, was obtained for his adopted town by Arthur Curzon, as result of negotiations with the former British Prime Minister's relatives. The framed picture hangs in the public library. • 1827-1977 Happy 150th .Birthday Goderich From the Staff of: W. J. HUGHES Realty Ltd. Bill Hughes Ebb Ross Joan Giesbrecht Harold Erb Clare Sager Barb Shewfelt Deb Shewfelt Rita Allen Don MacEwan Don MacCauley Susan Barlow Homes with History and Homes of the Present 1827 1977 CONGRATULATIONS TO GODERICH oNXou. 150th ANNIVERSARY SHEAFFER EATON is pleased and proud to have been part of this growing community for the past 25 years and wish everyone the very bast during the JUBILEE 3 celebrations. SHEAFFER EATON Sheaffer Eaton Division of Textron Canada Ltd.