The Currie Baronetcy is a title in the

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. It was created on 11 January 1847 for Frederick Currie, 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 (1756–1829), who was Member of Parliament for Upper Gatton and

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, and the brother of Vice-Admiral Mark John Currie.

Currie baronets, of Wickham Bishops (1847)

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(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)

Dormancy

*''Alick Bradley Currie, presumed 6th Baronet'' (1904–1987). He was an American great-grandson of the 1st Baronet, the immediate line of descent having come to an end. *''Donald Scott Currie, presumed 7th Baronet'' (1930–2014), nephew of Alick Bradley Currie. *''Mark Donald Currie, presumed 8th Baronet'' (born 1970) The presumed sixth Baronet was never on the

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which shows the baronetcy dormant since 1978 on the death of the 5th Baronet.

Other family members

* Henry Currie, cousin of the first Baronet, was Member of Parliament for

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. * The slaveholder Isaac Currie, uncle of the first Baronet, was the father of Raikes Currie,Fernandes, C. ''Island Off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of statecraft in Australian foreign policy'' (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2018), 14. Member of Parliament for

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, who was the father of diplomat Philip Currie, 1st Baron Currie. * Fendall Currie, sixth son of the first Baronet, was a Major-General in the Army. * Frederick Alexander Currie (d. 1902), son of Major Mark Currie and grandson of the first Baronet, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.

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Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom