Curzon was the eldest son of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, by his second wife Anne, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore.
Sir Leicester Smyth were his elder half-brothers and the Hon.
He was returned to Parliament for Leicestershire North in an 1883 by-election (caused by the death of Edwyn Sherard Burnaby), a seat he held until the constituency was abolished two years later.
[1] They had one son and one daughter: Curzon died in Loughborough on 1 September 1907.
William Arthur King, Vicar of Woodhouse, in London on 26 October 1909.