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The Earl Howe | |||||||
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |||||||
In office 11 January 1929 – 26 July 1964 Hereditary Peerage | |||||||
Preceded by | The 4th Earl Howe | ||||||
Succeeded by | The 6th Earl Howe | ||||||
Member of Parliament for Battersea South | |||||||
In office 14 December 1918 – 10 January 1929 | |||||||
Preceded by | constituency created | ||||||
Succeeded by | William Bennett | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | 1 May 1884 Mayfair, London, England | ||||||
Died | 26 July 1964 Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England | (aged 80)||||||
Political party | Conservative | ||||||
Spouses | Joyce Mary Mclean Jack
(m. 1937; div. 1943)Sybil Boyter Johnson
(m. 1944) | ||||||
Children | by Mary Curzon: Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe Lady Georgiana Curzon by Sybil Boyter Johnson: Lady Sarah Curzon | ||||||
Parent(s) | Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe Lady Georgiana Spencer-Churchill | ||||||
Champ Car career | |||||||
1 race run over 1 year | |||||||
First race | 1936 Vanderbilt Cup (Westbury) | ||||||
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24 Hours of Le Mans career | |||||||
Years | 1929–1932, 1934–1935 | ||||||
Teams | Bentley, privateer | ||||||
Best finish | 1st (1931) | ||||||
Class wins | 2 (1930, 1931) | ||||||
Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, CBE, RD, PC (1 May 1884 – 26 July 1964)[1] styled as Viscount Curzon from 1900 to 1929, was a British naval officer, Member of Parliament, and racing driver and promoter. In the 1918 UK General Election he won the Battersea South seat as the candidate of the Conservative Party, which he held until 1929. While in Parliament he took up motor racing, and later won the 1931 24 Hours of Le Mans race. He ascended to the Peerage in 1929, succeeding his father as the 5th Earl Howe. Earl Howe co-founded the British Racing Drivers' Club with Dudley Benjafield in 1928, and served as its president until his death in 1964.