David Maurice Curry (born 13 June 1944) is a British Conservative Party politician.
Curry, the son of teachers, was educated at the Ripon Grammar School where he was head boy in 1962, and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he received a bachelor's degree in modern history in 1966.
In 1970, he became the world trade editor at the Financial Times where he remained until he was elected to the European Parliament.
Two year later he moved sideways to the Department for the Environment where he remained until the Major government fell at the 1997 general election.
[1] In 1998, he became the chairman of the Agriculture Select Committee and, after the 2001 general election, its successor the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee until 2003 when he promoted again to the Shadow Cabinet by Michael Howard as Shadow Local and Devolved Government Secretary.