Richard Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale, TD (3 July 1898 – 19 October 1977), was an English peer and landowner, a member of the House of Lords for more than fifty years.

[2] His uncle's marriage had produced only three daughters, and he was widowed in 1906, leaving Curzon's father as the heir presumptive to the family estates based on Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire and the peerage of Baron Scarsdale.

In 1917, Marquess Curzon, by now in his late fifties, married secondly Grace Duggan, a rich young widow, hoping for a son and heir, but it was not to be.

His inheritance included Kedleston Hall, the baronetcies created for his ancestor Sir John Curzon (1598–1686), and the new title of Viscount Scarsdale.

[1] His daughters were: Scarsdale returned to the army in the Second World War, as a Captain in the Derbyshire Yeomanry, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration.