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Colonel Sir William Edward Carne Curre, 1st Baronet, CBE JP DL (26 June 1855 – 26 January 1930) was a British landowner and magistrate.

Curre was the son of Edward Mathew Curre, of Itton Court, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Monmouthshire, by Annie King, of Chepstow.[1] He was a Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel of the Royal Monmouthshire Engineers Militia and served as High Sheriff of Monmouthshire between 1892 and 1893.[2] In 1920 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[3] He was created a baronet, of Itton Court in the Parish of Itton and County of Monmouth in 1928.[4] Curre died in January 1930, aged 74, when the title became extinct.

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Honorary titles
Preceded by
Thomas Firbank
High Sheriff of Monmouthshire
1892–1893
Succeeded by
Arthur Evans
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Itton Court)
1928–1930
Extinct
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