Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe R.N.
Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe R.N.
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| Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe R.N. | Explanation |
| Son of Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe (1796-1870), 1st Earl Howe |
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| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
| 10 August 1850 | | Born |
| 25 February 1892 | | Married Alice Annel, daughter of General Rt. Hon. Sir John Cowell |
| 30 June 1905 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
| July 1909 | | G.C.V.O. (Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order) |
| 17 March 1911 | | Died (Admiralty House, Portsmouth) |
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| Date | Rank |
| December 1863 | Entered Navy |
| 18 September 1872 | Lieutenant |
| 31 August 1882 | Commander |
| 6 January 1888 | Captain |
| 23 July 1901 | Rear-Admiral |
| 12 September 1905 | Vice-Admiral |
| 2 January 1909 | Admiral |
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| Date from | Date to | Service |
| 27 November 1873 | | Lieutenant in Eclipse, commanded by James Elphinstone Erskine, North America and West Indies |
| 30 November 1874 | | Lieutenant in Bellerophon, commanded by Richard Wells, flagship of Rear-Admiral George Greville Wellesley, North America and West Indies |
| 28 February 1876 | 27 April 1878 | Lieutenant in Sultan, commanded by Duke of Edinburgh, Mediterranean |
| 27 April 1878 | | Lieutenant in Black Prince, commanded by Duke of Edinburgh, Mediterranean |
| 15 July 1879 | 31 August 1882 | Lieutenant in Bacchante, commanded by Charles Thomas Montague Douglas Scott, Detached squadron, and bearing the royal cadets, Albert Victor, duke of Clarence and Avondale, and his younger brother George (later King George V), who made their first cruise in her to the Mediterranean, West Indies, South America, Falklands, South Africa, Australia, Japan, China, Malaya, and home via the Mediterranean |
| January 1883 | | Commander (2ic) in Sultan, commanded by Walter James Hunt-GrubbeChannel squadron, then (December 1882), Mediterranean (including Bombardment of Alexandria, where Hunt-Grubbe was in command of the ships which engaged the northern forts), then Channel squadron again |
| 24 February 1885 | 1886 | Commander (2ic) in Raleigh, commanded by Arthur Knyvet Wilson, flagship of Rear-Admiral Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa |
| 13 July 1886 | 6 January 1888 | Commander in Osborne |
| 24 April 1888 | | Captain in Boadicea, flagship of Rear-Admiral Edmund Robert Fremantle, East Indies (including serving as Chief of Staff for Freemantle's punitive expedition against the Sultan of Vitu in October 1890) |
| (1892) | | Assistant Director of Naval Intellegence |
| 1894 | | Captain in Cleopatra, North America and West Indies (being Commodore during the Newfoundland fishing season) |
| January 1896 | | Captain in Revenge , Particular Service Squadron, commissioned after publication of the telegram from Kaiser Wiehelm II to President Kruger on 3 January 1896 |
| 1897 | 19002 | Captain in Britannia, training ship for Naval cadets, Dartmouth |
| February 1900 | | Captain in Ocean |
| 5 June 1902 | June 1803 | Second in command, Channel sqadron (flag in Magnificent) |
| 27 August 1903 | | Second in command, China station (flag in Albion) |
| 5 December 1905 | February 1907 | Second in command, Channel Fleet (flag in Caesar) |
| February 1907 | November 1908 | Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet (flag in Exmouth) |
| 10 November 1908 | 30 April 1910 | Commander-in-Chief, Mediteranean fleet (flag in Exmouth) |
| 30 April 1910 | 17 March 1911 | Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth (flag in Victory) |
