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After his wife visited Assam in 1904 to see 1 horned Rhino - and failed to do, Curzon created Kaziranga Reserve Forest which formed the basis of the later NP.
See en.wikipedia.org
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Curzon's ambition and arrogance made him very unpopular with many. His cultivation of the highest in the land was lampooned in the short verse - "My name is George Nathaniel Curzon, I am a most superior person, My cheek is pink, my hair is sleek, I dine at Blenheim once a week." He later stated that "never has more harm been done to one single individual than that accursed doggerel has done to me."
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Curzon sat in both the House of Commons (as MP for Southport) and then later in the Lords (including as Leader of the House of Lords in the 1920s).
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Large parts of the Red Fort were destroyed and/or looted by the British after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Curzon initiated some restoration, often via the creation of gardens, but most significantly that of the Diwan-i-Am for which Curzon "ordered that the panels be brought back from Kensington Museum and reinstalled in the Red Fort, for his Durbar, which was to be held in 1903....... Additionally, all of the panels weren’t present to be restored, and therefore new panels were put in their places using the same stones, made by European artists. The restoration work was completed in 1909, and what we see in the Diwan-i-Am today is the result of Lord Curzon’s attempt to hide the “vandalism of an earlier age”...."
