Mary Victoria Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (née Leiter; 1870 – 1906). British peeress of American background who was Vicereine of India, as the wife of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India. As Vicereine of India, she held the highest official title in the Indian Empire that a woman could hold.
She was born in Chicago, the daughter of Mary Theresa (née Carver) and Levi Leiter, the wealthy co-founder of Field and Leiter dry goods business, and later partner in the Marshall Fields retail empire. On her father's side, she was of Swiss-German descent.
Mary was introduced to London society in 1890. She met a young man, George Curzon, a Conservative Member of Parliament who was thirty-five years old, had been representing Southport for eight years, and was heir to the Barony of Scarsdale. They were married in 1895.
Mary Curzon and her three daughters are considered to be part of the inspiration for the fictional characters Lady Grantham and her three daughters, particularly in respect to the inability to produce a male heir, and the importance of a woman's virtue in the Downton Abbey television series written by Julian Fellowes and produced by ITV.
- "She had a complexion of most delicate pink-and-white and her long hair was a shade of auburn with Titian glints." https://archive.org/.../2015.458978.Curzon---The-End-Of...
PS: please note that sometimes Mary Curzon is described as black-haired, like in the Wikipedia page about her.
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