The Reverend Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet (18 April 1823 in

Gorakhpur Gorakhpur is a city in the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the West Rapti River, Rapti river in the Purvanchal , Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometres east of ...

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– 13 November 1900) was an English

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, the eldest child of

Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet (3 February 1799 – 11 September 1875) was a British diplomat, who had a career in the British East India Company and the Indian Civil Service. His posts included Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Me ...

and Susannah née Larkins. He was educated at

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and

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, where he played first-class cricket for the university. He became an

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clergyman, holding incumbencies at Exton and St Andrew's Wells Street, W.1

Family

He married Eliza Reeve Rackham on 18 September 1849. They had seven children: Eliza Kate, Susannah Louisa, Frederick Reeve, Walter Louis Rackham, Percy George Colin, Arthur Edward and Cecil Edmund, who played cricket for

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and

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. After his first wife's death, he married Mary Helen Corrie on 24 April 1866. There were no children by the second marriage. On his death the title passed to his son,

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. and, after Frederick Reeve's death, to his next son Walter Louis Rackham Currie.

References

1823 births People from Gorakhpur People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 1900 deaths Cambridge University cricketers 19th-century English Anglican priests Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1820s-stub