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Donald Thomas Younger Curry, Baron Curry of Kirkharle, CBE (born 4 April 1944) is a British farmer and businessman who is the former chair of NFU Mutual and non-executive chair of the Better Regulation Executive, and a member of the House of Lords.
Curry was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1997 New Year Honours, and announced in the 2001 Birthday Honours, was knighted on 12 July 2001.
On the recommendation of the House of Lords Appointments Commission, he was created a Crossbench (independent) life peer on 13 October 2011 taking the title Baron Curry of Kirkharle, of Kirkharle in the County of Northumberland. He was introduced in the House of Lords on 24 October 2011. In the introduction ceremony, his supporters were the Lord Plumb and the Baroness Byford.