Background
Currie was the son of Raikes Currie, Member of Parliament for Northampton, and the Honorary Laura Sophia, daughter of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse.
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He was educated at Eton.
Career
He was Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1893 to 1898 and Ambassador to Italy from 1898 to 1902. Currie joined the Foreign Office in 1854. He was an attaché at Street St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1856 to 1857, and précis writer to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Clarendon, from 1856 to 1857 as well as secretary to Lord Salisbury.
He was Assistant Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1882 to 1889 and served as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1893 to 1898 and as Ambassador to Italy from 1898 to 1902.
Currie was appointed a Central Bank in 1878, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1885 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1892. In 1899 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Currie, of Hawley in the County of Southampton.
From 24 November to 21 December 1898, Currie was one of the British Government delegates to the Rome Anti-Anarchist Congress, with Sir C. East. Howard Vincent and Sir Godfrey Lushington.
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United Kingdom of Great Bri