Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Curzon te tama tuarima a Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale, me tana wahine a Caroline. I uru tuatahi ia ki te Navy i te 14 o Oketopa 1776 hei kaipuke kaha i runga i te kaipuke. I te hokinga mai o "Aeolus" mai i nga West Indies i te tau 1780, ka noho ia hei kaitiaki kaipuke i runga. I tukuna a "Magnanime" ki te awhina i te Whakaoranga o Gibraltar i te tau 1781, katahi ka haere ki te East Indies i te tau 1782, hei whakakaha i te kaipuke i raro i a Sir Edward Hughes. I whakawhitihia a Curzon ki runga i te kaipuke matua, a, i whawhai ia i nga pakanga o
Ko Providien, ko Negapatam, ko Trincomalee. I te 1 o Hui-tanguru 1783, i whakawhiwhia ia ki te rangatira o te "Monarca" me te noho ki taua kaipuke i te Pakanga o Cuddalore i te tau 1783, tana mahi whakamutunga i te Rawhiti.