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	Thomas Peter Ellison Curry was born in [[Muree]], [[India]], where his father was stationed with the [[Royal Artillery]]. He was educated at [[Tonbridge School\|Tonbridge]] and [[Oriel College, Oxford]]. At Oxford, he read law and graduated with a first, winning [[Middle Temple]]'s Harmsworth Scholarship.<ref name=SR>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185648/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cu/peter-curry-1.html Peter Curry]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-06-20.</ref>		Thomas Peter Ellison Curry was born in [[Muree]], [[India]], where his father was stationed with the [[Royal Artillery]]. He was educated at [[Tonbridge School\|Tonbridge]] and [[Oriel College, Oxford]]. At Oxford, he read law and graduated with a first, winning [[Middle Temple]]'s Harmsworth Scholarship.<ref name=SR>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185648/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cu/peter-curry-1.html Peter Curry]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-06-20.</ref>

	He married Pamela Joyce Curry (née Holmes) in 1951 and had four children. He lived most of his married life in [[Surrey]], latterly in the village of [[Dunsfold]] near [[Godalming]].{{citation needed\|date=March 2022}} Their daughter [[Jilly Curry\|Jilly]] was a [[Freestyle skiing\|freestyle skier]], who won 29 [[British Medal Winners at FIS World Cup and World Championships in Ski and Snowboard\|29 FIS World Cup medals]],<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news\| url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/articles/team-gb-winter-olympic-medal-hopefuls-lloyd-wallace/\| title= Meet the 22-year-old skier with the chance of an Olympic medal in a forgotten Winter sport\| last=Bell\| first=Graham\| work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]\| date=16 November 2017\| accessdate=29 January ~~2022~~}}</ref> and competed in a [[demonstration event]] at the [[1992 Winter Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web\| url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/80894\| title=Jilly Curry\| publisher=[[Olympedia]]\| accessdate=2 March 2022}}</ref>		He married Pamela Joyce Curry (née Holmes) in 1951 and had four children. He lived most of his married life in [[Surrey]], latterly in the village of [[Dunsfold]] near [[Godalming]].{{citation needed\|date=March 2022}} Their daughter [[Jilly Curry\|Jilly]] was a [[Freestyle skiing\|freestyle skier]], who won 29 [[British Medal Winners at FIS World Cup and World Championships in Ski and Snowboard\|29 FIS World Cup medals]],<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news\| url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/articles/team-gb-winter-olympic-medal-hopefuls-lloyd-wallace/\| title= Meet the 22-year-old skier with the chance of an Olympic medal in a forgotten Winter sport\| last=Bell\| first=Graham\| work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]\| date=16 November 2017\| accessdate=29 January 2018}}</ref> and competed in a [[demonstration event]] at the [[1992 Winter Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web\| url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/80894\| title=Jilly Curry\| publisher=[[Olympedia]]\| accessdate=2 March 2022}}</ref>

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	*{{cite news\|title=Peter Curry: barrister, solicitor and athlete\|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7053046.ece\|work=[[The Times]]\|date=8 March 2010\|accessdate=28 March ~~2022~~}}		*{{cite news\|title=Peter Curry: barrister, solicitor and athlete\|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7053046.ece\|work=[[The Times]]\|date=8 March 2010\|accessdate=28 March 2011}}

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'''Thomas Peter Ellison Curry''' [[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]] (22 July 1921 – 25 January 2010) was a prominent English [[Barrister]] and [[sportsperson|athlete]]. The only man to take silk twice, he won triple Blues at [[Oxford University|Oxford]] and represented [[Great Britain]] in the [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 Olympic Games]].

== Personal life ==

Thomas Peter Ellison Curry was born in [[Muree]], [[India]], where his father was stationed with the [[Royal Artillery]]. He was educated at [[Tonbridge School|Tonbridge]] and [[Oriel College, Oxford]]. At Oxford, he read law and graduated with a first, winning [[Middle Temple]]'s Harmsworth Scholarship.<ref name=SR>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185648/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cu/peter-curry-1.html Peter Curry]. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-06-20.</ref>

He married Pamela Joyce Curry (née Holmes) in 1951 and had four children. He lived most of his married life in [[Surrey]], latterly in the village of [[Dunsfold]] near [[Godalming]].{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} Their daughter [[Jilly Curry|Jilly]] was a [[Freestyle skiing|freestyle skier]], who won 29 [[British Medal Winners at FIS World Cup and World Championships in Ski and Snowboard|29 FIS World Cup medals]],<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news| url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ski/articles/team-gb-winter-olympic-medal-hopefuls-lloyd-wallace/| title= Meet the 22-year-old skier with the chance of an Olympic medal in a forgotten Winter sport| last=Bell| first=Graham| work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]| date=16 November 2017| accessdate=29 January 2022}}</ref> and competed in a [[demonstration event]] at the [[1992 Winter Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/80894| title=Jilly Curry| publisher=[[Olympedia]]| accessdate=2 March 2022}}</ref>

==Military service==
Curry was commissioned into the Royal Artillery from cadet on the 19th October 1941<ref>London Gazette 11 November 1941, Issue:35345, Page:6565</ref> and served in [[Burma]] and [[India]] during the [[Second World War]] in the [[17th Indian Division]]. He fought at the [[Battle of Kohima]] (1944) and left India as a Second Lieutenant, returning to serve in the War Office.<ref name="ReferenceA">Transcript of interview given in 2009</ref>

== Athletics ==

Curry was a good sportsman awarded [[Blue (university sport)|Blues]] in [[Squash (sport)|squash]], [[athletics (sport)|athletics]], and [[Cross country running|cross-country]]. He won the 1947 Varsity Race and represented Great Britain in the 1947 [[World Student Games]] in [[Paris]], where he finished fourth in the three-mile-race. He won the [[3000 metres steeplechase]] in the 1948 [[AAA Championships]] and was selected for that event at the 1948 Olympics in London, but did not make the final.<ref name=SR/> He considered his best distance to be the mile and beat [[Roger Bannister]] twice over that distance, first in the 1946 [[Oxford University]] Freshmen Sports and subsequently when Bannister was running for Oxford University at a race in [[St Leonards-on-Sea]], [[West Sussex]]. However, Curry did not run or train with Bannister during the build-up to the [[four-minute mile]] (which happened in 1954).<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

== Legal career ==

Curry was called by Middle Temple in 1953 and took silk for the first time in 1966. A year later, he left the bar and joined [[Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer|Freshfields]] as a [[solicitor]], where he set up the [[tax]] department. Returning to the bar in 1970, he took silk for a second time in 1974. In 1979 he became head of chambers at 4 Stone Buildings, a position in which he remained until his retirement in 1996.

Curry appeared in many reported cases. He acted for [[John Lennon]], [[George Harrison]], and [[Ringo Starr]] in their dispute with [[Paul McCartney]], the shareholders in [[Banco Ambrosiano]], following the bank's collapse in the 1980s, and for Thomas Ward, the former director involved in the [[Guinness share-trading fraud|Guinness share-trading scandal]].

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*{{cite news|title=Peter Curry: barrister, solicitor and athlete|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7053046.ece|work=[[The Times]]|date=8 March 2010|accessdate=28 March 2022}}

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