Ancestral silence -- 'Passionate resolves' : Eton, 1872-1878 -- 'Laying the foundations' : Oxford, 1878-1883 -- Twin passions : 'women and work', 1882-1885 -- The journey to Westminster, 1885-1887 -- 'Travel with a purpose', 1887-1890 -- 'The coming
man', 1890-1895 -- Hearts and souls -- Number two at the FO -- Sailing to Bombay -- The governance of India -- 'Let India be my judge' -- Partners and colleagues : the problem of the princes -- Guarding the frontiers -- The Viceroy's routine -- 1902 : Proconsular zenith -- Fatal appointments, 1902-1903 -- The Gulf, Bengal and Tibet -- 'An infinitude of trouble' : England, 1904 -- Kitchener's conspiracy -- The breaking of the Viceroy -- 'Every man's hand' -- Picking up the pieces -- The conversion of a diehard, 1909-1911 -- Suffragists and other targets, 1911-1914 -- Lord Curzon at home -- In search of a role, 1914-1915 -- Air board and war cabinet, 1916 -- The second Lady Curzon -- Eastern questions, 1917 -- Lord President -- The Foreign Office at last -- Middle Eastern scrambles, 1919-1922 -- Lloyd George and the Turks, 1919-1922 -- Resurgence : Lausanne, 1922-1923 -- Family sagas -- Ultimate disappointments, 1923-1925.
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