Background
Thomas Peter Ellison Curry was born in Muree, India as his father was stationed there with the Royal Artillery.
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Education
He was educated at Tonbridge and Oriel College, Oxford. At Oxford, he read law and graduated with the first, winning Middle Temple"s Harmsworth Scholarship.
Career
Curry was called by Middle Temple in 1953 and took silk for the first time in 1966. A year later, he left the bar and joined Freshfields as a solicitor, where he set up the tax department. Returning to the bar in 1970, he took silk for a second time in 1974.
In 1979 he became head of chambers at 4 Stone Buildings a position in which he remained until his retirement in 1996.
Curry appeared in many reported cases. He acted for John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr in their dispute with Paul McCartney, shareholders in Banco Ambrosiano following the bank"s collapse in the 1980s, and for Thomas Ward, the former director involved in the Guinness share-trading scandal.
Achievements
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The only man to take silk twice, he won triple Blues at Oxford and represented Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games. Curry was a good sportsman awarded Blues in squash, athletics, and cross-country. He won the 1947 Varsity Race and represented Great Britain in the 1947 World Student Games where he finished fourth in the three-mile-race. He won the 3000 metres steeplechase in the 1948 American Automobile Association Championships and was selected for that event at the 1948 Olympics in London, but did not make the final.
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Nationality
United Kingdom