 Laura Sophia Wodehouse, daughter of John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse.He was educated at Eton College from 1840 to 1845, and afterwards in foreign languages in Weimar, Germany.His younger brother Philip Currie, 1st Baron Currie (1834–1906), was a diplomat, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1893 to 1898 and Ambassador to Italy from 1898 to 1902.