Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe
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The Right Honourable The Earl Howe PC |
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| Deputy Leader of the House of Lords | |
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Assumed office 8 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Leader |
Baroness Stowell of Beeston Baroness Evans of Bowes Park |
| Preceded by | Lord Wallace of Tankerness |
| Minister of State for Defence | |
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Assumed office May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Sec. of State | Sir Michael Fallon |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health | |
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In office 6 May 2010 – May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Anne Keen |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Prior of Brampton |
| Under-Secretary of State for Defence | |
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In office 1995–1997 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Agriculture | |
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In office 1992–1995 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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Assumed office 29 May 1984 Hereditary Peerage |
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| Preceded by | Edward Curzon |
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| Born | 29 January 1951 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Helen Stuart (m. 1983) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Occupation | Business executive |
Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, 7th Earl Howe, PC (born 29 January 1951) is a Conservative front bench member of the House of Lords. He is Minister of State for Defence and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords.
Lord Howe was the son of the Royal Navy commander and film actor George Curzon, grandson of The 3rd Earl Howe and Jane Victoria Fergusson. He was educated at King's Mead School, Seaford, Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in "Mods and Greats" in 1973 and, according to his Who's Who entry, earned the Chancellor's Prize in Latin Verse.
After leaving university in 1973, he joined Barclays Bank and served in a number of managerial and senior managerial posts in London and in other countries. After succeeding his second cousin as 7th Earl Howe in 1984, he left banking to concentrate on his Parliamentary activities and on running the family farm (Seagraves Farm Co Ltd) and estate at Penn in south Buckinghamshire. In 1991, Howe became a Lord in Waiting (Government whip in the House of Lords) with responsibilities, successively, for transport, employment, defence and environment. Following the 1992 general election he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and in 1995 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, a post he relinquished at the 1997 general election.
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