Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, (1 May 1884,

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– 26 July 1964,

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),"Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe; Ex-Member of Parliament and Racing Driver Dies". ''

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'' (Monday, 27 July 1964), p.30 styled as Viscount Curzon from 1900 to 1929, was a British naval officer,

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, and

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driver and promoter. In the

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he won the Battersea South seat as the candidate of the

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, which he held until 1929. While in Parliament he took up motor racing, and later won the

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race. He ascended to the

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in 1929, succeeding his father as the 5th

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. Earl Howe co-founded the

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with

Dudley Benjafield Joseph Dudley "Benjy" Benjafield, MD (6 August 1887- 20 January 1957) was a British medical doctor and racing driver. Career Benjafield was in born in Edmonton, London, UK. He attended the University of London and received his MD from Universit ...

in 1928, and served as its president until his death in 1964.

Early career

Francis,

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Curzon, joined the

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after leaving school, following in a long family

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. 28 October 1907, Lieutenant Viscount Curzon, RNVR, formerly of the London Division, was appointed Commanding Officer of the Sussex Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in Hove, Sussex, with the rank of Commander RNVR. When

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started the RNVR was formed into the Royal Naval Division and they were to fight on land like infantrymen not sailors. Commander the Rt. Hon. Viscount Curzon served as Battalion Commander, Howe Battalion of the 2nd Brigade RND. Howe Battalion saw action at Gallipoli, April 1915 – January 1916; Mudros and Stavros, Salonica, January - May 1916; France and Belgium, May 1916 - February 1918, when the battalion was disbanded. During part of this period Curzon also served as aide-de-camp to

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. During the First World War, as a keen film maker, he organised the cinematograph service for the Navy. (See: The Scotsman - Wednesday 24 May 1922 p 19 col 3). He took the cinematograph film of the surrender of the German fleet at Scapa Flow from the deck of H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth (The Bioscope - Thursday 28 November 1918 P 6 col 2 "Gossip and Opinions" and https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/surrender-of-german-fleet-at-scapa-flow-in-the-orkneys-news-photo/3139960). Following the armistice Viscount Curzon moved into politics. In the 1918 General Election he won the Battersea South seat, standing for the Conservative Party. When the RNVR was reconstituted in 1921 Viscount Curzon resumed his position as the commanding officer of the Sussex division with the rank of Captain; he was to hold this appointment until the RNVR was mobilised again in September 1939 on the outbreak of World War II. Following his father's death in 1929 Francis Curzon ascended to the title Earl Howe, making him ineligible for Parliamentary re-election. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in the

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. However, during his later years as an MP Curzon had begun to become involved in motor racing. An associate of the

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, he was instrumental in forming the ideas which led Dudley Benjafield to set up the British Racing Drivers' Club in 1928. The newly ennobled Earl Howe was elected its president at the BRDC's first Annual General Meeting in 1929.

Motor racing career

Francis Curzon made his race debut at the comparatively old age of 44, in the 1928 Irish TT with a

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. After leaving the

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he pursued his driving career with increasing vigour. During the 1930s he became a well known driver, competing in many national and international races, most notably the

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. He entered the endurance classic six times between

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and

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, only missing the

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event. For the first year he was entered as a part of the

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factory team; but he later entered his own cars, as Bentley was taken over by Rolls-Royce in 1931 and withdrew from motor racing. Driving his own Alfa Romeo 6C with co-driver Leslie Callingham he won the 2-litre class at the 1930 race. He upgraded to an

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for the

, and won the race outright driving in partnership with

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Birkin and Howe at the 1931 24 Hours of Le Mans

Away from La Sarthe, Earl Howe (as he was most commonly entered following his father's death) drove in a variety of automobiles. Indeed, in the mid-1930s he was credited by ''

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'' magazine as having "Europe's most elaborate" collection of racing cars. Although patriotic, he was often forced to buy and run cars built outside the UK, as once Bentley had withdrawn from motor sport there were no realistically competitive British-built machines available. He favored the

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marque, owning and campaigning several Bugattis. He won the

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Trophy race in 1933, and added to his victory haul with a win in the 1938 Grosvenor Grand Prix, at Cape Town in

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. In addition to these two victories he also took podium finishes in eleven other major races between 1933 and 1939, and became one of only two men to have competed in every running of the

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on the

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, the other being

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. In 1937, Howe was seriously injured in an accident driving his pale blue and silver – Howe's personal racing colours –

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R8B, while challenging the Thai Royal family competitor

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for the lead in the Campbell Trophy at the

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circuit. Aside from assuming the Presidency of the BRDC, Earl Howe also served as Vice-President of the

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, the governing body of international motorsport at the time. He also kept motorsport issues on the political landscape, with numerous speeches in the

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Post-war career

The Royal Navy during the Second World War A11744

The start of the

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effectively ended Earl Howe's front line driving career, and he returned to the Navy with the rank of

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. At the end of the conflict he moved into race organising, although he continued to prepare and enter cars for other drivers, including

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. As President of the BRDC and Patron of the newly formed 500 Club, he was instrumental in the resumption of motor racing and applied political pressure to allow airfields to be used for motor sport. He was involved with his friend and associate Peter Fulke Greville organising the first

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, at

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1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

, which gained full

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World Championship status at the Championship's inception in 1950. He also instituted the annual

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meeting at the same circuit. Under Earl Howe's 35-year stewardship, the BRDC went from private dining club to one of the most successful and high-profile motor sport associations in the world.

The Earl Howe Trophy

Today the BRDC maintains a highly prestigious award in his memory: ''The Earl Howe Trophy''. Until 2018 this was awarded annually "to the highest placed British Driver in the

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race or to the British driver who has established the most meritorious performance of the year in North America". The winning criteria were subjective and were determined at the discretion of the awarding panel. In 2016 the winner was Ed Jones, the Dubai-born driver who won the

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series, while no British driver finished within the top ten of the

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. In 2017, the Earl Howe Trophy winner was

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, who won both races at the USA round of the

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world championship: the

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. In contrast to the previous year, two British drivers had finished in the top ten at Indianapolis – Jones (third) and

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(fourth) – with Chilton also leading the most laps during the race. Previously, Justin Wilson won the 2013 award having finished in fifth place at that year's Indianapolis 500 event. From 2019, the award has been made to "the most outstanding performance of the year in Historic racing". The inaugural winners under the new criteria were Philip Walker and

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who, together with co-driver Miles Griffiths, won the 2019 Spa Six Hours historic endurance race.

Personal life

Francis Curzon was the son of

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, and his wife Lady Georgiana Elizabeth Spencer-Churchill. On 28 October 1907 he married his first cousin Mary Curzon (30 October 1887 – 1 September 1962), daughter of The Hon.

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and wife Esmé FitzRoy. They divorced in 1937. A daughter, (by Sybil Boyter Johnson) Lady Sarah Curzon (born 25 January 1945), married Formula One driver

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. After Courage's death in the

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, she married John Aspinall. Another daughter (by Mary Curzon) Lady

Georgiana Curzon Lady Georgiana Mary Curzon Kidston, Lady Starkey (7 January 1910 – 11 January 1976) was an English socialite, included in ''The Book of Beauty'' by Cecil Beaton. Early life Lady Georgiana Mary Curzon was born on 7 January 1910,Mosley, Charles, ...

married

Home Kidston Lieutenant-Commander Home Ronald Archibald Kidston (11 March 1910 – January 1996) was a Royal Navy officer, farmer and racing driver. Early life Kidston was born on the 11th of March 1910 in Cadogan Square, London, the son of Captain Arc ...

, a Royal Navy officer, farmer and racing driver. Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe died in July 1964. He was succeeded by his eldest son,

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Racing record

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete European Championship results

(

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Honours and medals

*Commander of the

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(CBE) *

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* Victory Medal *

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* Defense Medal *

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King George V Coronation Medal The King George V Coronation Medal was a commemorative medal instituted in 1911 to celebrate the coronation of King George V, that took place on 22 June 1911. Award It was the first British Royal commemorative medal to be awarded to people who w ...

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References

Footnotes

Other sources

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Francis Curzon profile at The 500 Owners Association

External links

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