Assheton Curzon-Howe

Admiral Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe KCB CMG CVO (10 August 1850 – 1 March 1911) was a British naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910.

In 1894 Curzon-Howe flew his flag as Commodore on the corvette HMS Cleopatra on the North America and West Indies Station.

[3][4] By January 1900 he had been promoted captain, and was appointed in command of the battleship HMS Ocean when she was commissioned 20 February 1900 for service on the Mediterranean Station.

[14] Later the same year he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list,[15] and was invested with the insignia by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.

[20][unreliable source] On 25 February 1892, at the age of 41, Assheton married Alice Anne Cowell, daughter of General Rt.