The Currie Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 January 1847 for Frederick Currie

Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet

Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet was an English diplomat.He was educated at Charterhouse and had a distinguished career in the British East India Company and the Indian Civil Service...

, Foreign Secretary to the Indian Government and a member of the Supreme Council of India. He was a grandson of
William Currie (1721-1781), nephew of William Currie

William Currie (British politician)

William Currie, , was a land owner, distiller, banker and Member of Parliament for Gatton and Winchelsea.On his father's death in 1781, he inherited his father's 75% interest in the distilling partnership his father had started with Nathaniel Byles...

 (1756-1829), who was Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Upper Gatton

Gatton (UK Parliament constituency)

Gatton was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1450 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act...

 and Winchelsea

Winchelsea (UK Parliament constituency)

Winchelsea was a parliamentary constituency in Sussex, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1366 until 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-Boundaries:...

, and the brother of Vice-Admiral Mark John Currie

Mark John Currie

Captain Mark John Currie RN played a significant role in the exploration of Australia and the foundation of the Swan River Colony, later named 'Western Australia'....

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Several other members of the family may also be mentioned. Henry Currie, cousin of the first Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Guildford

Guildford (UK Parliament constituency)

Guildford is a county constituency in Surrey which returns one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system....

. Isaac Currie, uncle of the first Baronet, was the father of Raikes Currie

Raikes Currie

Raikes Currie was Member of Parliament for Northampton from 1837 to 1857. He was a partner of the bank Curries & Co, Cornhill, City of London, and had several interests in the newly developing colony of South Australia...

, Member of Parliament for Northampton

Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)

Northampton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Northampton which existed until 1974.It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election...

, who was the father of diplomat Philip Currie, 1st Baron Currie

Philip Currie, 1st Baron Currie

Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie, 1st Baron Currie GCB , known as Sir Philip Currie between 1885 and 1899, was a British diplomat. He was Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1893 to 1898 and Ambassador to Italy from 1898 to 1902.-Background and education:Currie was the son of Raikes Currie, Member...

. Fendall Currie, sixth son of the first Baronet, was a Major-General in the Army.

The presumed sixth Baronet never successfully proved his succession and was never on the Official Roll of the Baronetage. As of 2007 the presumed seventh and present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage

Official Roll of the Baronetage

The Official Roll of the Baronetage is an official list of baronets compiled by the Crown Office, a section of the Ministry of Justice, and published by the Standing Council of the Baronetage. It was first published 23 February 1914...

, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1978. For more information, follow this link.

Currie Baronets (1847)

• Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet
  Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet
  Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet was an English diplomat.He was educated at Charterhouse and had a distinguished career in the British East India Company and the Indian Civil Service...
  
   (1799-1875)
• Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet (1823-1900)
• Sir Frederick Reeve Currie, 3rd Baronet (1851-1930)
• Sir Walter Louis Rackham Currie, 4th Baronet (1856-1941)
• Sir (Walter) Mordaunt Cyril Currie, 5th Baronet (1894-1978)
• Sir Alick Bradley Currie, 6th Baronet (1904-1987)
• Sir Donald Scott Currie, 7th Baronet (b. 1930)

External links

• Biography of Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet