[7] In 1899 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Currie, of Hawley in the County of Southampton.
[8] From 24 November to 21 December 1898, Currie was one of the British Government delegates to the Rome Anti-Anarchist Congress, with Sir Howard Vincent and Sir Godfrey Lushington.
Currie married Mary, daughter of Charles James Savile Montgomerie Lamb and widow of Henry Sydenham Singleton, in 1894.
Lord Currie survived her by a year and died in May 1906, aged 71.
[1] According to Keith Neilson and T. G. Otte, "Philip Currie was not a great permanent head of the Foreign Office... More than any other PUS, Currie was the creature of one of his political masters [Salisbury].