Sir Nathaniel Curzon of Kedleston, 2nd Baronet

Biographical Summary

"Sir Nathaniel Curzon, Baronet [E 1641 and S 1636], of Kedleston only surviving son and heir, born about 1640; was a merchant of London in 1671; succeeded to the Baronetcies, 13 December 1686. Sheriff of Derbyshire, 1691-92. He married (Lic. Vic.-Gen. 5 July 1671, he about 30 and she about 16) Sarah, daughter of William Penn, of Penn, Bucks. He died 4 March 1718/9. His widow died 4 June 1727/8. Both were buried at Kedleston."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1900; Vol. II; page 133

• ******************************************************************* Information about the Curzon family, who have owned the estate since at least 1297: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedleston_Hall

Kedleston Hall is an English country house in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately four miles north-west of Derby, and is the seat of the Curzon family whose name originates in Notre-Dame-de-Courson in Normandy. Today it is a National Trust property.

The Curzon family have owned the estate at Kedleston since at least 1297 and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall. The present house was commissioned by Sir Nathaniel Curzon (later 1st Baron Scarsdale) in 1759. The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo. At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park; Curzon was so impressed with Adam's designs, that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.

copied into Geni by Tina Marie Gardner, 2 May 2014