Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe
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Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, GCH
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, PC
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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 (11 December 1796 – 12 May 1870) was a British
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 peer
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 and courtier.

Curzon was the third (but first surviving) son of Hon. Penn Curzon (the eldest surviving son of the 1st Viscount Curzon
Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon
Assheton Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon and 1st Viscount Curzon was a British Tory politician.-Background and education:...

) and his wife, Sophia Curzon, suo jure Baroness Howe (the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl Howe
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe KG was a British naval officer, notable in particular for his service during the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars. He was the brother of William Howe and George Howe.Howe joined the navy at the age of thirteen and served...

 of the first creation).

As his father predeceased him, Curzon inherited his grandfather's viscountcy in 1820. He took the additional name of Howe by Royal Licence a year later and was created Earl Howe (a title previously held by his maternal grandfather) that year. From 1829-30, he was a Tory
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 Lord of the Bedchamber
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 to George IV
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, appointed a GCH
Royal Guelphic Order
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 in 1830 and was Lord Chamberlain
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 to The Queen
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 from 1830-31 and again from 1834-37. On his mother's death in 1835, he inherited her barony. On his own death in 1870, his titles passed to his eldest son, George.

Family

On 19 March 1820, Curzon married Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell (the second daughter of the 6th Earl of Cardigan) and they had ten children:
  • George Augustus Frederick Louis, styled Viscount Curzon, later 2nd Earl Howe (1821-1876)
  • Hon. Richard William Penn, later 3rd Earl Howe
    Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe
    Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe, GCVO, CB was a British peer and professional soldier....

     (1822-1900), ancestor of subsequent earls.
  • Hon. Frederick (1823-1881)
  • Hon. Henry Dugdale (1824-1910)
  • Lady Georgiana Charlotte (1825-1906), married the 8th Duke of Beaufort
    Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
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    ; ancestors of subsequent dukes.
  • Hon. William Henry (1827-1914)
  • Hon. Ernest George (1828-1885)
  • Hon. Leicester
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     (1829-1891)
  • Lady Adelaide (1835-1903), married the 12th Earl of Westmorland
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    ; ancestors of subsequent earls.
  • Lady Emily Mary Curzon-Howe (1836-1910), married Sir Robert Kingscote
    Robert Kingscote
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    .


Curzon's first wife died in 1836, and on 9 October 1845, he married Anne Gore (d. 1877) (the second daughter of Admiral Sir John Gore
John Gore (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir John Gore, KCB was a British naval commander of the 18th and 19th centuries...

) and they had three children:
  • Hon. Montagu Curzon
    Montagu Curzon
    The Hon. Montagu Curzon was a British soldier and Conservative politician.-Background:Curzon was the eldest son of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, by his second wife Anne, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore. George Curzon-Howe, 2nd Earl Howe, Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe and the Hon...

     (21 September 1846 – 1 September 1907), married on 19 October 1886 to Esmé FitzRoy (1859 – 25 May 1939, daughter of Francis Horatio FitzRoy (1823 – 1900) and wife Gertrude Duncombe (1827 –)), whose daughter Mary married her cousin the 5th Earl Howe and was mother of the 6th Earl Howe.
  • Admiral Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe (1850-1911)
  • Lady Mary Anna (1848-1929), married the 2nd Duke of Abercorn
    James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn
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    ; ancestors of subsequent dukes. Their granddaughter Lady Cynthia Hamilton
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     was paternal grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales
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    .
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