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{{Short description|British Member of Parliament}}
{{other people|Robert Curzon}}
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[[File:Parham Park.jpg|thumb|Parham Park house]]
[[The Honourable]] '''Robert Curzon''' (13 February 1774 – 14 May 1863), of [[Parham Park]], Sussex, was a long-standing British [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/curzon-hon-robert-1774-1863|title=CURZON, Hon. Robert (1774-1863)|publisher=History of Parliament Trust|accessdate= 7 March 2019}}</ref>
Curzon was the only surviving son of [[Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon]] of Penn House, Buckinghamshire by his second wife Dorothy, daughter of [[Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Baronet]]. [[Penn Assheton Curzon]] was his elder half-brother and [[Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe]], his nephew.<ref name="thepeerage.com">[http://thepeerage.com/p14329.htm#i143281 thepeerage.com Hon. Robert Curzon]</ref> He was educated at [[Westminster School]], [[Lincoln's Inn]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he was awarded a B.A. in 1795.
He was elected to Parliament for [[Clitheroe (UK Parliament constituency)|Clitheroe]] in 1796 (succeeding his cousin [[Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (1762–1819)|Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor]]), a seat he held for the next 35 years.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081024173617/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons4.htm leighrayment.com House of Commons: Chichester to Clitheroe]}}</ref> He was also [[Justice of the Peace]] (JP), [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of Sussex and selected [[High Sheriff of Sussex]] for 1834–35.
Curzon married the Honourable Harriet Anne, eldest daughter of [[Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche]] of Parham, in 1808. The barony of Zouche fell into [[abeyance]] on Lord Zouche's death in 1828 but was called out of abeyance the following year in favour of Harriet Anne (who became known as the Baroness de la Zouche).
Curzon inherited [[Hagley Hall]], Worcestershire and other unentailed properties on the death of his father in 1820 and acquired Parham Park in trust on the death of his father-in-law in 1828.
Curzon died at Parham Park in May 1863, leaving 2 sons, and was buried at Parham. Lady de la Zouche died in May 1870 and was succeeded by their elder son, [[Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche|Robert]], who had previously succeeded his father as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for Clitheroe in 1831.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/> In his will Curzon directed that the Hagley estate should be sold to provide an income for his younger son, the barrister Edward Cecil Curzon.
Curzon owned a copy of the Third Folio of Shakespeare's works, containing what may be the only copy of a [[Portrait of Anne Hathaway]], Shakespeare's wife.
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*{{cite book|title=Visitation of England and Wales Notes, 1919, Volume 13; Volume 1919|first=Joseph|last=Howard|page=153}}
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| with4   = [[Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh|Viscount Castlereagh]] 1812 <small>(never sat)</small>
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| with6   = [[William Cust|Hon. William Cust]] 1818–1822
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