Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale

Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726 – 5 December 1804) of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire was an English Tory politician and peer.

[2] When his elder unmarried uncle, Sir John Curzon, 3rd Baronet died in 1727, his father inherited the baronetcy and Kedleston Hall.

[1] Curzon had started work on the development of Kedleston Hall before he inherited, having employed the landscape gardener William Emes to replace the formal water features with natural lakes.

In 1759 he commissioned the rebuilding of the house, designed in the Palladian style by the architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham.

Curzon intended Kedleston Hall, located 4 miles north-west of Derby, to outshine the house of his Whig neighbour the Cavendishes at Chatsworth.

Portrait of Lord Scarsdale and his wife, Lady Caroline, by Nathaniel Hone the Elder , 1761
Portrait of Nathaniel and his brother John, with their mother, by Andrea Soldi , between c. 1738 – c. 1740 .
Kedleston Hall
Portrait of his son, Adm. Henry Curzon , by William Hamilton