Mary Curzon, Lady Howe

Mary Curzon, Countess Howe (30 October 1887 – 1 September 1962) was an English aristocrat dubbed by the newspapers the Queen of Beauty.

Early life Mary Curzon was born on 30 October 1887, the only daughter of Esmé FitzRoy and Col. Montagu Curzon, the eldest son, by his second wife, of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe. Her brother, William Montagu Curzon-Herrick, was married to Lady Maud Hastings (daughter of Warner Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon).

Her maternal grandfather was Francis Horatio FitzRoy (son of Admiral Lord William FitzRoy and grandson of Prime Minister Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton). who was then known as Francis, Viscount Curzon (1884–1964). Francis was the son, and later heir, of Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe and his first wife Lady Georgiana Elizabeth Spencer-Churchill (fifth daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Vane). Before their divorce in 1937, they were the parents of: Edward Richard Assheton Penn Curzon, who inherited the title.