Elizabeth Howe - The Office of the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire

Vice President

Elizabeth was born in 1955 and brought up in Kenya where her father was a Forestry commissioner.Her parents returned to the UK in 1963 and later settled in Buckinghamshire in Ickford. She went to school in Oxford and then achieved a childhood ambition to become a teacher by taking a teacher training course at Homerton College, Cambridge completing her studies with a BEd degree in Geography and Music. She enjoyed seven rewarding years of teaching before leaving to get married to Frederick Curzon in 1983. After he inherited the title Earl Howe in 1984 they moved to the family home in Penn, Buckinghamshire. The move to Penn gave rise to many varied opportunities to become involved in the county.

She has been a school governor at Little Missenden Infant school and Godstowe Preparatory school and is currently a governor at  Curzon C of E Combined School in Penn Street Village and Oundle School in Northamptonshire.

She has involved herself in many local charities, and in particular the work of St John Ambulance, holding the position of County President.

In 1994 she was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County. 

She has four children, two at University and two still at school. They all share her love of music.