General Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe, GCVO, CB (14 February 1822 – 25 September 1900), was a British hereditary peer and British Army officer.
Curzon-Howe was the second son of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, and his first wife, Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell.
In 1838, Curzon-Howe joined the British Army and rose through the ranks as a major general in 1869, a lieutenant-general in 1877 and a general in 1880. He fought in the Kaffir War and was present at the Siege of Delhi, for which he was appointed a CB in 1858.
In 1876, Curzon-Howe inherited his elder brother's titles. He was appointed honorary colonel of the Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry cavalry in 1876, colonel of the 94th and 17th Regiment of Foot in 1879 and colonel of the 2nd Life Guards in 1890. In 1897, he was appointed a GCVO for his services as Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, a post he held between 1888 and 1900.
Lord Howe married Isabella Maria Katherine Anson (born 1832), eldest daughter of the Hon. George Anson and his wife, the Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Annabella Weld-Forester, on 8 February 1858. They had four children: