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 578 CURRIE CUMNOCK i.e. "Crichton of Sanquhar and Cumnock," Barony [S.] {Crichton), cr. 1633, with the Earldom of Dumfries [S.], which see. CUMRA i.e. "MouNTSTUART, CuMRA AND Inchmarnock.," Barony [S.] {Stuart), cr. 1703 with the Earldom of Bute [S.], which see. CUNNINGHAM Sec "Glencairn" [Qy. "Cunningham of Kilmaurs"] Barony [S.] {Cunningham), cr. {circa) 1469. CUPAR See "Stratheden of Cupar, co. Fife," Barony {Campbell), cr. 1836. CURRAGHMORE See "Poer" of Curraghmore, Barony [I.] {Poer), confirmed, as a Barony in fee, by the Crown, 19 Dec. 1767, to the Dowager Countess of Tyrone [I.]. See "Power and Coroghmore," Barony [I.] {Power), cr. 1535; dormant, 1704. CURRIE BARONY. Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie, 4th s. of Railces C, of Bush Hill, Midx., and Minley Manor, Hants, M.P. for I. 1899 Northampton, 1837-57 (who d. 1881), by Laura Sophia, to eldest da. of John, 2nd Baron Wodehouse, was ^.13 Oct. 1906. 1834, in London; ed. at Eton; attached to the British Legation at St. Petersburg 1856 and 1857; Precis writer to the Foreign Sec. (Lord Clarendon) 1857-58; Sec. to Special Mission to Constantinople 1876; Private Sec. to Lord Salisbury 1878; Joint Sec. with Montagu Corry (Lord Rowton) to Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury at the Berlin Congress June 1878; Sec. to the Special Mission to invest King Alfonso XII of Spain with the Garter 188 i;(^) Assist. Under Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs 1882-89; Permanent Under Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs 1889-93; Ambassador to Constantinople Dec. 189310 June i898;P.C. 29 Jan. 1894; Ambassador to Rome July 1898 to Jan. 1903; C.B. 29 July i878;K.C.B. I Dec. 1885; G.C.B. i Aug. 1892. On 25 Jan. 1899 he was (') For these Missions see vol. ii, Appendix B.