About Henry Currie
Lived 1798 – 1873 (aged 74–75). Henry Currie was a British politician.
Henry Currie (1798 – 1873) was the Conservative MP for Guildford from 1847 to 1852.
Early life He was the son of William Currie, of East Horsley Park, Surrey, MP for Gatton, and his wife, Percy, daughter of Francis Gore. He was the cousin of Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet (1799–1875). He was educated at Eton College.
Career Currie lived at West Horsley Place, in West Horsley, Surrey.
Personal life In 1825, Currie married Emma Knox, the daughter of Colonel Thomas Knox, and they had three children: Henry William Currie (1828-?) Emily Currie, married Charles Henry Wyndham A'Court in 1854 Mary Currie, in 1859, married Sir Edward Robert Sullivan, 5th Baronet of Ravenhead, Lancs.
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