Assheton Curzon-Howe

Admiral the Honourable Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe KCB CVO CMG (10 August 1850–1911) was a British naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910.

Early life
Curzon-Howe was the thirteenth and youngest child of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, and Anne (d. 1877), who was Lord Howe's second wife (Assheton was the youngest of her three children), daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore. His paternal great-grandfather was Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe.

Career
In 1894 Curzon-Howe flew his flag as Commodore on the corvette HMS Cleopatra on the North America and West Indies Station. By early 1901 he had been promoted Captain, and commanded the battleship HMS Ocean serving on the China Station from January 1901.

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 ADC.

In 1906, now a Vice Admiral, Curzon-Howe served as second-in-command of the Channel Fleet, flying his flag in HMS Caesar (Captain Sydney R. Fremantle). 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.

Family
On 25 February 1892, at the age of 41, Assheton married Alice Anne Cowell, daughter of General Rt. Hon. Sir John Cowell. They had five children:
 * Captain Leicester Charles Assheton St. 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-?)

His wife Alice died on 5 November 1948.

Assheton's elder sister, Lady Maria Anna Curzon (1848–1929), was the great-great-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.