Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe was born 7 August 1908 to Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe (1884-1964) and Mary Curzon (1887-1962) and died 29 May 1984 of unspecified causes. He married Priscilla Crystal Frances Blundell Weigall (1914-1996) . He married Grace Lilian Wakeling (-1985) 30 April 1946 .
Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, 6th Earl Howe CBE (7 August 1908 – 29 May 1984), styled Viscount Curzon from 1929 to 1964, was a British peer.
Howe was the eldest son of Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe and his wife (also his father's first cousin), Mary Curzon. He served as an officer of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II later becoming a Conservative politician.[1]
He was succeeded in the earldom by his second cousin, Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe.
Siblings
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Priscilla Mary Rose Curzon (1940) | 1940 | Charles William Lyle Keen (1936) | |
| Jennifer Jane Curzon (1941) | 12 May 1941 | 15 June 2023 | Alan Joseph Ponté (c1940-) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon (1947) | |||
| Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Curzon (1948) | |||
Lord Howe married first Priscilla Crystal Frances Blundell Weigall (1914-1996), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet and his wife Grace E. Blundell Maple (1876-1950), on 23 July 1935. He married secondly, on 30 April 1946, Grace Lilian Wakeling (married firstly to Captain A. N. Barker), who died on 24 December 1985, daughter of Stephen Frederick Wakeling, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.
From both marriages, he had only daughters. From his second marriage with Grace Wakeling, he is the father of Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon (former wife of John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, and mother of Isabella Calthorpe and Cressida Bonas).
References
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl Howe
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Robin Patterson
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