CURRY, Richard (son of Thomas Curry of Gosport, Hants.) b. 1772; entered navy 22 March 1780; captain 7 Jany. 1802, R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 9 Nov. 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 July 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Stoke, Devonport 27 Dec. 1855.
CURSETJEE, Ardaseer. b. Bombay 6 Oct. 1808; in charge of shipbuilding yard at Mazagon 1828, assistant builder there 1833; introduced gas lighting into Bombay 1835, sewing machines, photography and electroplating; chief engineer at Bombay steam factory, July 1840 to July 1858 being the first Indian native placed over Europeans; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1840; F.R.S. 27 May 1841. d. Lowjee house, Marsh Gate, Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 271–4 (1878).
CURSHAM, Mary Ann. Resided at Sutton, Notts; author of Emanuel Swedenborg and other poems by M. A. C.; Martin Luther a poem by M. A. C. 1828; Norman Abbey a tale of Sherwood forest, by a Lady 1832; Poems, sacred, dramatic and lyric 1833; The infant’s decalogue or a metrical version of the ten commandments by M. A. C. 1836. d. 1 North bank, Derby 17 Dec. 1881.
CURTEIS, Sir Thomas Isaac Horsley (son of John Curteis of Norfolk). b. 1780; Exon of Yeomen of the Guard 31 May 1805 to May 1839; knighted at St. James’s palace 27 June 1833. d. Twyford, Norfolk 26 Dec. 1858.
CURTIS, Charles Berwick (youngest son of Sir Wm. Curtis, 1 baronet 1752–1829). b. Culland’s grove, Southgate 18 March 1795; ed. at Harrow; gunpowder manufacturer with Thomas Curtis and W. G. Harvey near Hounslow 1820–69; at time of his death the firm owned six factories in Middlesex, Kent, South Wales and Argyleshire; A.I.C.E. 1 March 1842; invented a self acting signal for railways 1842 which was used for some time. d. 105 Eaton sq. London 26 Oct. 1876.
CURTIS, James Gray William. Entered Bengal army 1826; captain 37 Bengal N.I. 13 Jany. 1842 to 8 Dec. 1850; deputy assistant commissary general 27 March 1849 to 8 Dec. 1850; C.B. 9 June 1849; retired colonel 28 Nov. 1854. d. Oaklands, Shepherd’s Bush, London 16 Nov. 1870.
CURTIS, John. b. Norwich 3 Dec. 1791; F.L.S. 1822; made entomological tours in Scotland 1825, France 1829, Italy 1843, 1850 and 1851; entomological editor of Gardener’s Mag. 1841–47; granted civil list pension of £100, 25 Nov. 1842 and another of £50, 19 April 1861; published British entomology illustrated with 770 plates, 16 vols. which came out in numbers 1 Jany. 1824 to 1 Dec. 1839; A guide to an arrangement of British insects 1829, 2 ed. 1837. d. Belitha villas, Barnsbury park, London 6 Oct. 1862. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1863) 35–41.
CURTIS, John Charles. Principal of the British and Foreign School society’s training college, Borough road, London many years before his death; author of A School and college history of England 1860; Chronological and genealogical tables of English history 1863; An English grammar for schools 1876 and many other school books. d. 24 Villa road, Brixton 10 May 1888 aged 61.
CURTIS, John Harrison. A dispenser in the navy and at Haslar hospital; lived at 18 Soho sq. London and advertised himself in the newspapers and by pamphlets as an aural surgeon 1815; founded Royal dispensary for diseases of the Ear, Carlisle st. Soho 1816; employed Hume Weatherhead and other persons to write his books; made £5000 a year for many years; had a tube from his consulting room to his waiting room by which he could hear what the patients said of themselves; always received his patients in full dress of time of George iv; gambled away his earnings at Junior United Service Club; retired to Isle of Man 1848 where he became insane; published A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear 1817, 5 ed. 1831; An essay on the deaf and dumb 1829; A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the eye 1833; Observations on the preservation of hearing and on hearing trumpets 1834, 11 ed. 1839; On the Cephaloscope and its uses 1842; Advice to the deaf 1841, 5 ed. 1845 and other works. d. in an asylum in the Isle of Man about 1860. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 358–73.
CURTIS, Sir Lucius, 2 Baronet (son of admiral Sir Roger Curtis, K.C.B. 1 baronet 1746–1816). b. 3 June 1786; entered navy 2 June 1795; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Malta 8 March 1843 to 8 March 1848, admiral 9 July 1855; succeeded 14 Nov. 1816; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Portsdown hill near Portsmouth 14 Jany. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 201, 355 (1869).