Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe

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Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe

Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, 7th Earl Howe (born January 29, 1951 ) is a British politician ( Conservative Party ), member of the House of Lords and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the British Ministry of Health .

family

Howe is the son of the Royal Navy officer and film actor George Curzon (1898–1976). In 1984 his second cousin Edward Richard Assheton Curzon, 6th Earl Howe (1908-1984) died without a male heir and the title of nobility and the mandate in the House of Lords passed to Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe. Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe , is his great-grandfather.

On March 26, 1983, Lord Howe married Elizabeth Helen Stuart , the eldest daughter of Captain Burleigh Edward St Lawrence Stuart. The marriage resulted in four children:

  • Lady Anna Elizabeth Curzon (* 1987), the music at the University of Nottingham studied
  • Lady Flora Grace Curzon
  • Lady Lucinda Rose Curzon
  • Thomas Edward Penn Curzon, Viscount Curzon (* 1994), the future title heir

education and profession

Howe attended King's Mead School in Seaford , the Rugby School and studied at Christ Church in Oxford , where he made an ancient language degree ("Literae Humaniores").

In 1973 he finished his studies and worked in various management positions at Barclays Bank in various countries.

He also owns the family farm (Seagraves Farm Co Ltd) and an estate in Penn in south Buckinghamshire .

politics

After the death of the 6th Earl Howe in 1984, he took over his seat in the House of Lords and quit his work in the bank in order to devote himself fully to politics. In 1991 he became Lord-in-Waiting (a kind of Parliamentary Executive Director ), responsible for the policy areas of transport policy, employment policy, defense policy and environmental policy. After the British general election in 1992 , he became Secretary of State in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and in 1995 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Defense .

After the Tories lost the British general election in 1997 , Lord Howe resigned as Secretary of State and was spokesman for the Conservative Opposition on health policy in the House of Lords from 1997 to 2010.

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, he lost the automatic seat in the House of Lords along with all other Hereditary Peers. However, he was elected as one of 92 elected Hereditary Peers to remain in the House after the reform.

The 2010 British general election resulted in a coalition government led by the Tories. Howe became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Nottingham Alumni ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alumni.nottingham.ac.uk
  2. ↑ Frederick Howe . Conservatives. Retrieved September 7, 2011.
  3. ↑ Penn House website http://www.pennhouse.org.uk/

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SURNAME Curzon, Frederick, 7th Earl Howe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Curzon, Frederick Richard Penn, 7th Earl Howe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British businessman, Secretary of State and member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1951