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Browse officers in command: A - B; C - E; F - G; H - K; L - O; P - R; S - T; U - Z; ??
| Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe (1796-1870), 1st Earl Howe | |||
| 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) | ||
| 1 March 1911 | Died (Admiralty House, Portsmouth) | ||
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 9 January 1864 | Naval cadet | ||
| 29 September 1865 | Midshipman | ||
| 30 March 1870 | Sub-Lieutenant | ||
| 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 | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 9 January 1864 | 22 March 1865 | Naval cadet in Britannia, commanded by Captain Richard Ashmore Powell, cadet training ship, Portland | |
| 14 April 1865 | 28 September 1865 | Naval cadet in Caledonia, commanded by Captain Hon. Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley, Mediterranean (second in command) | |
| 29 September 1865 | 24 January 1867 | Midshipman in Caledonia, commanded by Captain Hon. Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley, Mediterranean (second in command) | |
| 25 January 1867 | 29 March 1870 | Midshipman in Galatea, commanded by Captain Prince Alfred Ernest Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, undertaking an extensive world tour to South America, the Cape, Australia, China, India and Japan (interrupted on 12 March 1868, by a Fenian assassination attempt at Sydney, when the ship returned to England to allow him to recover) | |
| 30 March 1870 | 2 June 1871 | Sub-Lieutenant in Galatea, commanded by Captain Prince Alfred Ernest Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, undertaking an extensive world tour to South America, the Cape, Australia, China, India and Japan (interrupted on 12 March 1868, by a Fenian assassination attempt at Sydney, when the ship returned to England to allow him to recover) | |
| 3 June 1871 | 19 September 1871 | Sub-Lieutenant in Excellent, commanded by Captain Henry Boys, gunnery ship, Portsmouth | |
| 20 September 1871 | 30 June 1872 | Sub-Lieutenant in Bellerophon, commanded by Captain John Dobree McCrea, Channel squadron | |
| 1 July 1872 | 21 September 1872 | Sub-Lieutenant in Victoria and Albert, commanded by Captain Prince Ernest L.V.C.A.J.E Leiningen, Portsmouth | |
| 31 May 1873 | 30 September 1873 | Additional lieutenant in Excellent, commanded by Captain Henry Boys, gunnery ship, Portsmouth, for a short torpedo course | |
| 27 November 1873 | 9 January 1875 | Lieutenant in Eclipse, commanded by Captain James Elphinstone Erskine, North America and West Indies | |
| 30 November 1874 | 17 March 1876 | Lieutenant in Bellerophon, commanded by Captain Richard Wells, flagship of Rear-Admiral George Greville Wellesley, North America and West Indies | |
| 18 March 1876 | 8 May 1878 | Lieutenant in Sultan, commanded by Duke of Edinburgh, Mediterranean | |
| 9 May 1878 | 23 December 1878 | Lieutenant in Black Prince, commanded by Duke of Edinburgh, Mediterranean | |
| 15 July 1879 | 31 August 1882 | Lieutenant in Bacchante, commanded by Captain Lord 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 | |
| 9 January 1883 | 16 February 1883 | Commander (2ic) in Sultan, commanded by Captain Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, Channel squadron | |
| 24 February 1885 | 12 July 1886 | Commander (2ic) in Raleigh, commanded by Captain Arthur Knyvet Wilson, flagship of Rear-Admiral Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa | |
| 13 July 1886 | 8 March 1888 | Commander in Osborne, Portsmouth | |
| 24 April 1888 | 8 June 1891 | 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) | |
| 29 August 1891 | 20 September 1892 | Assistant Director of Naval Intellegence | |
| 21 September 1892 | 5 December 1895 | Captain in Cleopatra, North America and West Indies (being Commodore during the Newfoundland fishing season) | |
| 14 January 1896 | 5 November 1896 | Captain in Revenge , Particular Service Squadron, commissioned after publication of the telegram from Kaiser Wiehelm II to President Kruger on 3 January 1896 | |
| 21 April 1897 | 19 February 1900 | Captain in Britannia, training ship for Naval cadets, Dartmouth | |
| 20 February 1900 | 27 October 1901 | Captain in Ocean, China | |
| 5 June 1902 | 5 June 1803 | Second in command, Channel sqadron, flag in Magnificent | |
| 13 June 1903 | 2 August 1905 | Second in command, China station, flag in Albion | |
| 5 December 1905 | February 1907 | Second in command, Channel Fleet, flag in Caesar | |
| 23 February 1907 | 19 November 1908 | Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet, flag in Exmouth | |
| 20 November 1908 | 30 April 1910 | Commander-in-Chief, Mediteranean fleet, flag in Exmouth | |
| 1 May 1910 | 1 March 1911 | Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth (until he died), flag in Victory | |
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