Background
CURZON-HOWE, Assheton Gore was born on August 10, 1850 in Gopsall, Leicestershire. Youngest son of 1st Earl j Howe, Knight of Hanover, and the Honourable Anne Frances, daughter of j Admiral Sir John Gore, Knight Commander of the Bath.
CURZON-HOWE, Assheton Gore was born on August 10, 1850 in Gopsall, Leicestershire. Youngest son of 1st Earl j Howe, Knight of Hanover, and the Honourable Anne Frances, daughter of j Admiral Sir John Gore, Knight Commander of the Bath.
Brighton; H Master of Surgery “ Britannia.” Joined His (or Her) Majesty’s navy as cadet, 1863.
His paternal great-grandfather was Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe. In 1894 Curzon-Howe flew his flag as Commodore on the corvette HMS Cleopatra on the North America and West Indies Station. By January 1900 he had been promoted Captain, and was appointed in command of the battleship HMS Ocean when she was commissioned 20 February 1900 for service on the China Station.
Curzon-Howe was appointed a Naval Aide de Camp to Queen Victoria in July 1899, and was re-appointed as a Naval Aide de Camp to her successor King Edward VII in February 1901.
He was promoted to flag rank as Rear-Admiral in July 1901, which ended the appointment as Naval Aide-de-Camp. On 5 June 1902 he was appointed second-in-command of the Channel Squadron, and temporarily hoisted his flag on board the HMS Cambridge, gunnery ship at Devonport, before he transferred to the battleship HMS Magnificent later the same month. He was flying his flag in HMS Caesar (Captain Sydney R Fremantle) in 1906.
In 1907, he was Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet. Curzon-Howe the served as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910.
He was promoted to Admiral in late 1909 or early 1910.
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 HMS Victory. On 25 February 1892, at the age of 41, Assheton married Alice Anne Cowell, daughter of General Rt.
Honorary
Sir John Cowell. They had five children:
Captain Leicester Charles Assheton Saint John Curzon-Howe (8 July 1894 – 21 February 1941)
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-?)
Assheton"s elder sister, Lady Maria Anna Curzon (1848–1929), was the great-great-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Clubs: United Service, Marlborough.