Philip Currie, 1st Baron Currie
- Philip Currie, 1st Baron Currie
Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie, 1st Baron Currie (13 October 1834 – 12 May 1906) was a British diplomat.
He served as her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople from 1893, having been been connected with the Foreign Office since 1854; he had also been attaché at St Petersburg, and was secretary to Lord Salisbury. He was Ambassador to Italy in 1898 and from 1900 to 1902, the latter period after having been created Baron Currie, of Hawley in the County of Southampton.
Husband of poet Violet Fane. Son of Raikes Currie and Hon. Laura Sophia Wodehouse.
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