Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (7 August 1908 – 29 May 1984) was a British peer

Peerage

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, known as Viscount Curzon from 1929-1964.

He served as an officer of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II

World War II

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 later becoming a Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician.

Family

He was the eldest son of Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe

Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe

Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, CBE, PC, VD was a British naval officer, Member of Parliament, motor racing driver and promotor. In the 1918 UK General Election he won the Battersea South seat as the candidate of the Conservative Party, which he held until 1929...

 and his wife, Mary Curzon. He married twice, first to Priscilla Weigall, daughter of Lt.-Col. Sir Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet, on 23 July 1935. Secondly, on 30 April 1946, Curzon married Grace Lilian Barker Wakeling, who died on 24 December 1985, daughter of Stephen Frederick Wakeling, of Durban

Durban

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, Natal

Natal Province

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, South Africa

South Africa

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From both marriages, he had only daughters. From his second marriage with Grace Wakeling, he is the former father-in-law of John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe

John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe

John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe is a property magnate and former Chairman of the Watermark Group, son of Sir Richard Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 2nd Baronet and Namcy Moireach Malcolmson.He married twice...

 and grandfather of Isabella Calthorpe

Isabella Calthorpe

Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, who uses the stage name Isabella Calthorpe , is an English actress and model, daughter of John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe and Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon.Primarily a stage actress, she has also appeared in the films Stage Beauty and...

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He was succeeded in the earldom by his second cousin, who was a grandson of the 3rd Earl.