The Hon. Montagu Curzon (21 September 1846 – 1 September 1907) was a British soldier and
Conservative
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...
politician.
Early life
Curzon was the eldest son of
Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe
Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe (11 December 1796 – 12 May 1870), was a British peer and courtier.
Background
He was the third but eldest surviving son of The Hon. Penn Assheton Curzon (the eldest son of Assheton Curzon, 1s ...
, by his second wife Anne, daughter of
Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore.
George Curzon-Howe, 2nd Earl Howe
George Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon-Howe, 2nd Earl Howe (16 January 1821 – 4 February 1876) was a British peer and Conservative party politician.
Biography
Curzon-Howe was the eldest son of Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, ...
,
Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe
General Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe, (14 February 1822 – 25 September 1900), was a British peer and professional soldier.
Background
Curzon-Howe was the second son of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, and first wife, La ...
and the Hon.
Sir Leicester Smyth were his elder half-brothers and the Hon.
Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe his younger brother. Admiral
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
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was his great-grandfather.
Career
Curzon was a Colonel in the
Rifle Brigade
The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were soon renamed the "Rifle ...
. He was returned to Parliament for
Leicestershire North in an 1883 by-election (caused by the death of
Edwyn Sherard Burnaby
Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (22 May 1830 – 31 May 1883) was a major-general''Gentleman's Magazine'', September 1867, p. 398 and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicestershire North from 1880 until his death. He served in the C ...
), a seat he held until the constituency was abolished two years later.
Personal life
Curzon married in London on 19 October 1886 Esmé FitzRoy (1859–1939), the fourth daughter of
Francis Horatio FitzRoy (son of Admiral
Lord William FitzRoy
Admiral Lord William FitzRoy (1 June 1782 – 13 May 1857), was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary Wars, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and also as a Member of Parliament.
Biography
Famil ...
) and his wife, the Hon. Gertrude Duncombe (second daughter of
William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham
William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham (14 January 1798 – 11 February 1867), was a British peer with a large estate in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was prominent in the affairs of the Royal Agricultural Society and owner of a prize-winni ...
).
They had one son and one daughter:
*
Mary Curzon (1887–1962), who married her first cousin,
Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe
Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, (1 May 1884, Mayfair, London – 26 July 1964, Amersham, Buckinghamshire),"Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe; Ex-Member of Parliament and Racing Driver Dies". ''The New York Times'' (Monday, 27 Ju ...
on 28 October 1907. They divorced in 1937.
* William Montagu Curzon-Herrick, who married Lady Maud Kathleen Cairnes Plantagenet Hastings, daughter of
Warner Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon.
Curzon died in
Loughborough
Loughborough ( ) is a market town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, the seat of Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. At the 2011 census the town's built-up area had a population of 59,932 , the second larg ...
on 1 September 1907. His widow remarried to the Rev. William Arthur King, Vicar of Woodhouse, in London on 26 October 1909. She later died in
Woodhouse on 25 May 1939.
[Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003]
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1846 births
1907 deaths
Younger sons of earls
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1880–1885
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