Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, 7th Earl Howe (born 29 January 1951) is a Conservative front bench member of the House of Lords, and is a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health.Lord Howe was educated at King's Mead School (Seaford), Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, whence in 1973 he took a degree in Mods and Greats and, according to his Who's Who entry, earned the Chancellor's Prize in Latin Verse.After leaving University in 1973, he joined Barclays Bank and served in a number of managerial and senior managerial posts both overseas and in London.After succeeding his second cousin as 7th Earl Howe, he left banking to concentrate on his Parliamentary activities and on running the family farm (Seagraves Farm Co Ltd) and estate in south Buckinghamshire.