Thomas Peter Ellison Curry was born in Muree, India, where his father was stationed with the Royal Artillery.
[citation needed] Their daughter Jilly was a freestyle skier, who won 29 29 FIS World Cup medals,[2] and competed in a demonstration event at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
[3] Curry was commissioned into the Royal Artillery from cadet on 19 October 1941[4] and served in Burma and India during the Second World War in the 17th Indian Division.
He won the 1947 Varsity Race and represented Great Britain in the 1947 World Student Games in Paris, where he finished fourth in the three-mile-race.
He acted for John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr in their dispute with Paul McCartney, the shareholders in Banco Ambrosiano, following the bank's collapse in the 1980s, and for Thomas Ward, the former director involved in the Guinness share-trading scandal.