Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche

He was responsible for acquiring several important and late Biblical manuscripts from Eastern Orthodox monasteries.

Baroness Zouche succeeded to the Barony from her father Sir Cecil Bisshopp the 8th Baronet Bishopp, of Parham Park in the county of (today) West Sussex (from 1815 the 12th Baron Zouche of Hayngworth) after her brother Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bisshopp and Sir Cecil's heir was killed in the War of 1812 against the Americans.

[1] In 1831, he succeeded his father as member of parliament for Clitheroe, a seat he only held until the following year.

[2] In 1842-1843 Curzon was joint British Commissioner in Erzurum as part of the British-Turkish-Persian-Russian boundary commission sitting to delineate the Turkish and Persian frontier.

He visited Mount Athos in 1837, and at the Monastery of St Paul, he recounts how the abbot said "We make no use of the old books, and should be glad if you would accept one'", upon which he took two, including a fourteenth-century illuminated Bulgarian gospel, now in the British Library.