Vice Admiral Edward Curzon CB

Vice Admiral Edward Curzon CB
Title:Vice Admiral
First name:Edward
Surname:Curzon
Post-nominals:CB
Year elected:1829
Last year on list:1861
MembershipNaval
Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, 6th Earl Howe, CBE, CStJ, DL, JP (7 August 1908 – 29 May 1984), styled Viscount Curzon from 1929 to 1964, was a British Peer.

Curzon joined the London Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Probationary Midshipman on 18 September 1928, and was appointed an Acting Sub-Lieutenant on 21 July 1931, receiving promotion to Sub-Lieutenant on 7 November 1932, with seniority from 21 July 1932. He left the RNVR in 1936 or 1937, but returned to RNVR service after the outbreak on the Second World War, being appointed a probationary temporary sub-lieutenant on 23 February 1940. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 20 May 1940, and served aboard the cruiser HMS Cairo from June 1940 to December 1941, then the battleship HMS Howe (named after his illustrious ancestor the first Earl Howe) from May 1942 to July 1945, serving in the rank of acting temporary Lieutenant Commander from December 1943 until April 1944. He left the Navy in April 1946.

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