Assheton Curzon-Howe

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Admiral Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe Template:Post-nominals (10 August 1850 – 1 March 1911) was a British naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910.

Early life

Curzon-Howe was the thirteenth and youngest child of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, and his second wife Anne Gore (died 1877),[1] daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore.[2] His paternal great-grandfather was Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe.

Career

In 1894 Curzon-Howe flew his flag as Commodore on the corvette Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". on the North America and West Indies Station.[3][4] By January 1900 he had been promoted captain, and was appointed in command of the battleship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". when she was commissioned 20 February 1900 for service on the Mediterranean Station.[5] She transferred to the China Station in January 1901, in response to the Boxer Rebellion.

Curzon-Howe was appointed a Naval Aide de Camp (ADC) to Queen Victoria in July 1899,[6] and was re-appointed as a Naval Aide de Camp to her successor King Edward VII in February 1901.[7] He was promoted to flag rank as rear admiral in July 1901,[8] which ended the appointment as Naval ADC.

On 5 June 1902 he was appointed second-in-command of the Channel Squadron,[9] and temporarily hoisted his flag on board HMS Cambridge, gunnery ship at Devonport,[10] before he transferred to the battleship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". later the same month.[11] Shortly before his departure from London he was received in audience by King Edward VII.[12] With Magnificent, he took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII,[13] and visited the Aegean Sea for combined manoeuvres with the Mediterranean Fleet the following month.[14] Later the same year he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list,[15] and was invested with the insignia by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.[16]

He was flying his flag in Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". (Captain Sydney Fremantle) in 1906.[17] In 1907, he was Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet.[18] Curzon-Howe the served as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910.[19] He was promoted to Admiral in 1909. He was Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, from 1 May 1910 until his death, age 60, on 1 March 1911. During this time he flew his flag in Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[20]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Family

On 25 February 1892, at the age of 41, Assheton married Alice Anne Cowell, daughter of General Rt. Hon. Sir John Cowell. They had five children:

  • Captain Leicester Charles Assheton St. John Curzon-Howe (8 July 1894 – 21 February 1941), the father of Anne Rita Curzon-Howe, who married Captain Christopher Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham.[21]
  • Victoria Alexandrina Alice Curzon-Howe (1 September 1896 – 3 February 1910)
  • Assheton Penn Curzon-Howe-Herrick (21 August 1898 – 23 February 1959)
  • Joyce Mary Curzon-Howe (16 July 1906 – 24 September 1997)
  • Elizabeth Anne Curzon-Howe (15 November 1909 – ?)

His wife Alice died on 5 November 1948.[22]

Assheton's elder sister, Lady Mary Curzon (1848–1929), was the great-great-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.[23]Template:Circular reference

Footnotes

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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  3. ↑ Royal Navy - Ships in Service in 1894 This consists of the names of officers listed in Whitaker's Alamanac for 1894 as serving in ships in commission & in reserve in various parts of the world.
  4. ↑ A Guide to the Archival Holdings of The Centre for Newfoundland Studies Memorial University Library. Template:Webarchive The Centre for Newfoundland Studies has "an autograph letter on HMS Cleopatra letterhead, dated 21 August 1894, signed Assheton G. Curzon-Howe, Commodore of the Cleopatra, concerning employees of Munn Brothers and others from Conception Bay encountered on his trip to Labrador. Envelope and small Christmas card included."
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  6. ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".
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  17. ↑ The Royal Navy June 1906 Channel Fleet
  18. ↑ Extracts from Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century Newspapers - Appointments of Senior Naval Officers - Taken from "The Queenslander " {Australia} 10 November 1906 {page 13} as transcribed by Bev Edmonds Template:Webarchive
     :"The following changes in naval commands, to take effect early in 1907, have been officially announced... CURZON-HOWE, Vice-Admiral Sir Assheton G., {second in command to the Channel Fleet} to be Commander of the Atlantic Fleet."
  19. ↑ Janus: The Papers of Reginald McKenna
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  21. ↑ Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 3 (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), pp. 3880–3881
  22. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
  23. ↑ Wikipedia: Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe

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Military offices
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