Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe
Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, 7th Earl Howe ( born January 29, 1951) is a British politician ( Conservative Party ), member of the House of Lords and Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health.
Family
Howe is the son of Royal Navy officer and film actor George Curzon (1898-1976 ). Died in 1984, his uncle Edward Richard Assheton Curzon, 6th Earl Howe ( 1908-1984 ) without a male heir, and the noble title and the mandate of the House of Lords went on Frederick Curzon about, 7th Earl Howe. Richard Curzon - Howe, 3rd Earl Howe is his grandfather.
On March 26, 1983 married Lord Howe Elizabeth Helen Stuart, the eldest daughter of Captain Edward Burleigh St Lawrence Stuart. The marriage produced four children have emerged:
- Lady Curzon Anna Elizabeth (* 1987) studied music at the University of Nottingham
- Lady Flora Grace Curzon
- Lady Lucinda Rose Curzon
- Thomas Edward Penn Curzon, Viscount Curzon (* 1994), the future heir
Education and work
Howe attended the King's Mead School in Seaford, the Rugby School and studied at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a classical languages statements (" Literae Humaniores ").
In 1973 he finished his studies and worked in various management positions in the Barclays Bank in various countries.
He is also owner of his family's farm ( Seagraves Farm Co Ltd ) and an estate in Penn in the south of Buckinghamshire.
Policy
In 1984 he took over the seat of his uncle in the upper house and finished his career with the bank in order to dedicate himself fully to the policy. In 1991 he became Lord -in- Waiting ( a kind of Parliamentary Secretary ), responsible for transport policy policy, employment policy, defense policy and environmental policy. After the British general election, 1992, he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and 1995 parlamentatrischer Undersecretary of Defense.
After the Tories had lost the British general election, 1997, resigned from Lord Howe as Secretary of State and was from 1997 to 2010 in the House of Lords Speaker of the conservative opposition for health policy.
With the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, he lost along with all other Erbpeers ( Hereditary peers) the automatic seat in the House of Lords. However, he was chosen as one of 92 selected Erbpeers that remained after the reform in the House.
The British general election in 2010 led to a coalition government led by the Tories. Howe was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department of Health ( Ministry of Health) in.