San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-11
Lord Curzon. Leader of the
House of Lords, Former
Vieeroy of India and
One of England's
Greatest Noblemen.

Chicago and Washington, it was doubtless
partly with the thought her millions would
help to rebuild the family fortunes. He
achieved the height of his ambition when
he was appointed Viceroy of India, and
made the most magnificent representative
England ever sent to that country. Much
of his wfe's wealth he spent in restoring
several old English castles which would
otherwise have fallen down.
1t was a great disappointment to Lord
CurZon that he had no son to whom hi
titles would pass and whom he could
bring up to carry on his political ideas
But he was proud of his three pretty
daughters, who grew up to be ornaments
of the highest society and might have made
the most brilliant marriages. Even before
his death, however, Lord Curzon was wor-
ried by the adoption of Socialism by his
son-in-law, Captain Mosley.
Lord Curzon spent some of his leisure
time for several wears before his death
experimenting the execution of magnifi-
cent funeral monument in medieval style.
bearing recumbent statues of himself and
his first wife in robes of state, the sides
were decorated with many coats-of-arms.
Some persons have considered what eX-
preston the recumbent statue would wear
if it could reflect Lord CuZons sensa-
tons on hearing the news about Lady
Cynthia.
The new developments in the Curzon
family certainly illustrate in a striking
way the foolishness of human ambitions
The CONSERVATION created in the Mosley
family by these developments is no less
than in the Curzon circle. The Mosleys
are descended from Sir Ernald de Mosley,
who flourished in Staffordshre as a
county magnate in the reign of King John
in A. D. ITO. Sir Nicholas Mosley was
Lord Mayor of London under Queen
Elizabeth in 1899. and his son was one of
the leading chevaliers of King Charles in
his war against Oliver Cromwell 1t was Sir
Nicholas Mosey who before closing a
mortgage which the then Lord Delaware
had placed in his hands as security for a
debt of $4,000, obtained from him his
lordship of the manor of Manchester
Thanks to these immortal rights the
MoseyS were able to control for the sub
sequent 300 years or more the markets of
Manchester which from small town had
become a great industrial and commercial
center. Finally sort of civic rebellion
broke out at Manchester and after much
costly litigation the Mosleys sold their
rights for several million pounds sterling.
This was done during the lifetime of the
late Sir Oswald Mosley.
The Mosleys for centuries have been in
the public eye through their hereditary
aversion to monOtony and commonplace.
The adventures and romances of the fam
lily would fill volumes and have furnished
themes for many a novelist, including
Charles Dickens One of the Mosleys, the
Rev. Sir John Mosley, as the result of
being crossed in love developed into an
incurable crank and, like Charles Dickeus's
"Mr Mopes," lived in one room in his big
house and refused entrance to any other
person.
His food was passed to him through a
grating so that he might be spared the
danger of looking upon a woman's face.
He hated the entire sex with the most saw
age detestation, and in his extensive
gardens he had covered walls built of brick
so that he might take exercises in the air
without being seen. He planted a large
field of mixed pepper and sugar cane, TO
typify love, which shows thar there was
some method in the old parsons madness.
Captain Oswald Mosley would surpass
the eceentricity of all his ancestors, if he
divided his millions among his red
Comrades"