LONDON, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, ivory, legend above 1846/0, signed by C. Nugent, rev. named (Honble. R. Curzon, Stall 115), 39mm, 6.41g (W 335). Very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension £300-£360

Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810-73), traveller, diplomat and author, active in the Near East; son of Hon. Robert Curzon and Harriet Anne Bishopp, 13th Baroness Zouche; b London; educ. Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford; MP for Clitheroe 1831-2; entered the diplomatic service and travelled to Palestine 1833; served as the British attaché at Constantinople; visited numerous monasteries and the 1830s and 1840s, rescuing several rare books and manuscripts, including the Bulgarian Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, loaned and later donated to the British Museum; returned to England 1844 and succeeded to the barony 1870; DL of Sussex; d at his country seat, Parham (W. Sussex). Sold with much further background information.

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