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mentary prize of £150, for the best essay on scab; author of Pure saddle-horses and how to breed them in Australia 1863, Recollections of squatting in Victoria 1883, The Australian race its origin, languages, customs and place of landing in Australia 4 vols. 1888, published by Government of Victoria. d. 3 Aug. 1889. Mennell's Dict. of Australasian biog. 1892 p. 112.

CURRAN, HENRY GRATTAN (natural son of John Philpot Curran 1750-1817, master of the rolls in Ireland 1806--15). b. about 1800; barrister King's inns, Dublin 1828, resident magistrate at Parsonstown 1860 to death; many of his translations from Irish language are in James Hardiman's Irish minstrelsy 2 vols. 1831 and H. R. Montgomery's Specimens of the early native poetry of Ireland 1846; author of Confessions of a Whitefoot, edited by G. C. H. Esq, barrister-at-law 1844. d. Parsonstown July 1876. O'Donoghue's The poets of Ireland part 1, 1892 p. 49.

CURREY, FREDERICK INNES (son of Frederick Currey of Blackheath park, Blackheath). b. 3 May 1849; educ. Marlborough 1861-6, in the football twenty 1865; member of Marlborough Nomads football club; one of the 32 members of football clubs who founded the Rugby football union at Pall Mall restaurant, 14 Regent st. London 26 Jany. 1871 and one of the 15 members who settled laws of the game; played for England against Scotland at The Oval, London 5 Feb. 1872 when England won; pres. of Rugby union 1884-6; admitted solicitor Aug. 1879; member of firm of Ullithorne, Currey and Villiers 1 Field court, Gray's inn, London 1879 to death. d. 62 Wellington road, St. John's Wood, London 18 Dec. 1896. Rev. F. Marshall's Football the Rugby union game 2 ed. 1895 pp. 67, 95 prt.

CURREY, HENRY (3 son of Benjamin Currey of 6 Old palace yard, Westminster, solicitor). b. 1820; educ. Eton; articled to Decimus Burton 5 years; assoc. of R.I.B. A. 1848, fellow 1856, vice pres. 1874-7 and 1889-93; architect and surveyor to governors of St. Thomas's hosp. London 1847 to death, designed the new hosp. on Albert embankment, the Queen laid first stone 13 May 1868 and opened the hosp. 21 June 1871; architect and surveyor to Foundling hosp. and to Magd. hosp.; built hotel at London bridge railway terminus 1861-2, the Pump room at Buxton 1875 and many other buildings. d. The chestnuts, Lawrie park, Sydenham 23 Nov. 1900. The Builder 1 Dec. 1900 p. 495.

CURRIE, BERTRAM WODEHOUSE (2 son of Raikes Currie 1801-81 banker, London and M P. Northampton 1837-57). b. 25 Nov. 1827; educ. Eton; a partner in bank of Curries and Co. 29 Cornhill, London 1849 which amalgamated with bank of Glyn, Mills and Co. 67 Lombard st. 1864, since which style of firm has been Glyn, Mills, Currie and Co. it was converted into a jointstock co. with unlimited liability 14 Jany. 1885, partner to death; member of council of India 11 Dec. 1880 to 10 Dec. 1895; selected to look into affairs of Messrs. Baring 11 Nov. 1890; sheriff of London 1892; high steward of Kingston-on-Thames 1893; chief founder of Gold standard defence assoc. 1895; operated on for cancer in the tongue Dec. 1895; entered church of Rome about Oct. 1896. d. 1 Richmond terrace, Whitehall, London 29 Dec. 1896. Buckland's Dict. of Indian biog. 1906 p. 103; I.L.N. 9 Jany. 1897 p. 42 prt., 20 Feb. p. 262.

CURRIE, SIR FREDERICK LARKINS, 2 Baronet (1 son of Sir Frederick Currie, 1 baronet 1799-1875). b. Gorrackpore, North west provinces 18 April 1823; educ. Rugby and Christ's coll. Camb., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; played against Oxford univ. at Lords 12-13 June 1845; played for Norfolk 1849-51; ordained deacon 1848, priest 1849; C. of Clenchwarton near Kings Lynn 1848-61; C. of Bright Waltham, Berkshire 1861-72; C. of Petersfield 1872-85; R. of Exton, Hants. 1885-6; R. of Old Alresford, Hants. 188696; succeeded 11 Sept. 1875. d. Uckfield, Sussex 13 Nov. 1900. Times 15 Nov. 1900 p. 4. CURRIE, SAMUEL. b. 1816; educ. Edin. univ. M.D. 1835; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835; assistant surgeon in army 14 Oct. 1836, surgeon 12 Feb. 1847 d.i.g. of hospitals 18 Jan. 1859; served in Sutlej campaign 1846 and in North China 1860; principal medical officer with Abyssinian exped. force 1867; surgeon general 15 Aug. 1868, retired 28 April 1876; principal medical officer in Madras 1870-4 and Bengal 1874-6; C.B 28 Feb. 1861; hon. phys to the queen 24 Dec. 1873 to death. d. 83 Lexham gardens, Kensington, London 25 March 1898. Times 28 March 1898 p. 11; I.L.N. 9 April 1898 p. 512 prt.

CURSHAM, GEORGE (son of Rev. T. Cursham of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.) b. 1795; educ. Repton school 1808-11; M.D. Paris 1828; F.R.C.P. 1844; phys. to Hospital for consumption, London; phys. to Asylum for female orphans; inspector of anatomy for provincial medical schools 1861 or '62, granted pension of £100, 1860. d. 23 Sept. 1871. Repton school register 1895 p. 56.

CURTEIS, EDWARD BARRETT (2 son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis of Windmill hill near Hailsham 1762-1835, M.P. for Sussex 1820-30). b. 1806; ensign 33 foot 5 Dec. 1822; captain 7 dragoon guards 12 April 1827, major 17 Oct. 1834, sold out 8 July 1836; M.P. for Rye 14 Dec. 1832 to 18 July 1837; author of Exposure of the corrupt system of elections at Rye 1853, d. Leasam, Rye 14 Dec. 1879. I.L.N. 27 Dec. 1879 p. 611.

CURTEIS, GEORGE HERBERT (1 son of George Curteis of Canterbury). b. Canterbury 3 April 1824; educ. Winchester; scholar univ. coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1846, M. A. 1849; fellow of Exeter coll. 1847 to 7 Feb. 1863, tutor and subrector 1855-7; ordained deacon 1848, priest 1849; C. of Minster, Isle of Thanet 1848-51; fellow of St. Aug. coll. Canterbury 1851-55; select preacher at Oxf. 1857-58, 1866-67, 1875-6 and 1888-9; principal of Lichfield theol. coll. 1857-80; preb. of Lichfield 1859-73, canon 1873 to death, precentor 1890 to death; R. of Turweston, Bucks Aug. 1870 to 1873; Bampton lecturer at Oxf. 1871; R. of Waldron, Sussex 1880-2; professor of exegesis of new testament King's coll. London Dec. 1881 to death; Boyle lecturer at Whitehall 1884-6; chaplain of chapel royal, Savoy Oct. 1890 to death; author of Dissent in its relation to the Church of England 1872, The scientific obstacles to Christian belief 1885, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand and of Lichfield 1889. d. The Close, Lichfield 9 Oct. 1894. bur. in cathedral close. Guardian 10 Oct. 1894 p. 1524; I.L.N. 20 Oct. 1894 p. 495 prt.

CURTEIS, HERBERT MASCALL (only child of Herbert Barrett Curteis 1793-1847, M.P. for Rye 1841-7). b. Florence 8 Jany. 1823; educ. Westminster 1836-40 and Ch. Ch. Oxf. ; played in Oxford cricket eleven 1841-2 and Sussex county eleven 1846-60, vice pres. of Sussex cricket club 1864-8, pres. 1869-78; M.P. for Rye 23 Dec. 1847, election declared void on petition, M.P. again 6 April 1848 to 1 July 1852; master of East Sussex foxhounds 1854-68. d. Windmill hill near Hailsham 16 June 1895. Betham's Oxford and Cambridge scores 1905 p. 93; Times 20 June 1895 p. 6.

CURTEIS, WILLIAM CALVERLEY (son of Rev. Samuel Curteis of Sunbury, Middlesex). b. Thoby priory, Essex 5 Aug. 1798; educ. Shrewsbury, Wadham coll. Öxf. and Trin. hall Camb.; L.L.B. Camb. 1821, L.L.D. 1826; fellow of the college of doctors of laws otherwise an advocate of Doctors Commons 3 Nov. 1826, retired 1858; author of Reports of cases argued and determined in the ecclesiastical

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courts at Doctors Commons 1834-1844, 3 vols. 1840-44, A full report of the case of Mastin v. Escott clerk, for refusing to bury an infant baptized by a Wesleyan minister 1841. d. The Shrubbery, Scole, Norfolk 4 Oct. 1894. Law journal 13 Oct. 1894 p. 594. CURTICE, EDWARD. CURTICE, EDWARD. Bookseller, publisher, printer and engraver at 12 Catherine st. Strand, London 1852; proprietor and publisher of The Templar the first semi-official organ of Grand lodge of England 1871-3; sold his business to the Hansard union; partner with Romeike as press cutting agents at 12 Catherine st. 1888 to death. d. 46 Museum st. London 30 Aug. 1898, Winskill's Temperance standard bearers 1897, i 285, 1898 ii p. vii; Times 1 Sept. 1898 p. 4. CURTIS, SIR ARTHUR COLIN, 3 Baronet (2 son of Roger Wm. Curtis of Island of St. Vincent, d. 23 Sept. 1859 aged 42). b. Trinidad 1858; succeeded his grandfather 14 Jany. 1869; joined an expedition which Pocock took out to goldfields of British Columbia, met Pocock at Vancouver 27 March 1898, the expedition left Quesnelle 4 June and encamped on the Mud river 8 June, left the camp about 8 p.m. 10 June was never heard of again, leave was granted by judge of probate division 30 Jany. 1899 to swear his death on or since 10 June 1898. Cokayne's Complete baronetage 1906, v 291; Times 31 Jany. 1899 p. 15.

CURTIS, ARTHUR HILL. Educ. Trin coll. Dublin, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853, L.L.B. and L.L.D. 1862; professor of natural philosophy Queen's coll. Galway Aug. 1857 to March 1880, registrar 1877 to March 1880; assistant comr. of intermediate education March 1880; member of senate of Royal univ. of Ireland 1883-6; author of A mathematical deduction of the principal properties of the Dublin 1862 and of many papers; gyroscope. not in Thom's Official directory after 1886. Queen's college, Galway calendar 1905 p. 95. CURTIS, JOHN (son of Stephen Curtis). b. 19 June 1794; admitted into society of Jesus 1814 the year of its restoration throughout the world by Pius vii; studied at Clongowes wood 1816-29; ordained priest by abp. of Dublin 1824; professed of four vows in Dublin 1833; rector of Tullabeg college 1834-43; superior of the famous Residence in Upper Gardiner st. Dublin 1843-50 and 1856-63; Provincial 1850-6; wrote and translated some books. d. 9 Nov. 1885. Life of Father John Curtis of the society of Jesus by the author of Tyborne &c. 1891; The Month Sept. 1891 pp. 130-1.

CURTIS, MARY SUSAN (dau. of Robert Clamp of St. Nicholas parish, Ipswich). b. Ipswich 27 May 1797; m. 12 March 1820 George Curtis of St. Lawrence who d. 1867. She d. 20 Sanford crescent, Cockington, near Torquay 26 Feb. 1900 aged nearly 103. Torquay times 2 March 1900.

CURTIS, TIMOTHY ABRAHAM (2 son of Sir Wm. Curtis, 1 baronet 1752-1829). b. 30 Jany. 1786; educ. Eton; an engineer; a director of Bank of England 1820-41, deputy governor 1835-7, governor 1837-9. d. The Home lodge, Blenheim park 13 May 1857. G.M. Aug. 1857 p. 224.

CURWEN, HENRY (2 son of Rev. Henry Curwen, R. of Workington, Cumberland 1837 to his death 26 Aug. 1894, aged 81). b. Workington hall 1845; educ. Rossall sch. 1858-64; worked in London for John Camden Hotten the publisher; went to Bombay 1876; assistant editor of The Times of India 1876, editor 1880, proprietor March 1889 to death; author of Echoes from the French poets: an anthology from Baudelaire, A. de Musset, Lamartine and others 1870, A history of booksellers : the old and the new 1873, Sorrow and song: studies of literary struggle 2 vols. 1874, Within Bohemia; or love in London 1876, new ed. 1877, Plodding on; or the jog trot to fame and fortune 1879, Zit and Xoe: their early experiences 1886, anon reprinted from Blackwood's mag., Lady Bluebeard: a novel, by the author of Zit and Xoe 2 vols. 1888, Dr. Hermione by the author of Zit and Xoe 1890. d. on board P. & O. steamship Ravenna between Bombay and Aden 22 Feb. 1892, buried at sea, brass mural tablet in St. Thomas's cath. Bombay. Buckland's Dict. of Indian biog. 1906 p. 101; Oaten's A sketch of Anglo-Indian literature 1908 pp. 165–7.

CURZON, ERNEST GEORGE (6 son of 1 earl Howe 1796-1870). b. 12 Aug. 1828; ensign 52 foot 13 Dec. 1844, lieut. col. 19 Feb. 1870, placed on h.p. 1 Nov. 1877; served in Indian mutiny 1857-8; A.A. and Q M.G. Aldershot 1 Jany. 1878 to 31 Dec. 1882, colonel on the staff at Dover 10 Oct. 1883. d. while on a visit to Sir J. M. Adye at Gibraltar 5 March 1885. I.L.N. 14 March 1885 p. 272. CUSACK, MARY FRANCIS (only dau. of Samuel Cusack M.D. of Dublin, physician). b. near Dublin 6 May 1830; member of an Anglican religious sisterhood at Osnaburgh st., Regent's park, London; received into church of Rome July 1858; confirmed by Cardinal Wiseman; a sister of Franciscan convent of Poor Clares

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at Newry co. Down July 1859; founded a convent of Poor Clares at Kenmare co. Kerry Oct. 1861, left Kenmare 16 Nov. 1881; collected £20,000 during Irish famine 1879; kept a convent school at Knock co. Mayo 1881-3; obtained permission from Pope Leo XIII to found a new order the Sisters of Peace 24 May 1884; opened first house of new order at Nottingham 1884 and a similar house in Jersey city, New Jersey 1885; seceded from church of Rome 1888; very widely known as The Nun of Kenmare; began remarkable correspondence in The Times on the Pallium and the archiepiscopal oath 19 Aug. 1892 it went on till 13. Sept.; author of An illustrated history of Ireland: from the earliest period by M.F.C. (in monogram) 1868, History of the kingdom. of Kerry 1871, A history of the city and county of Cork 1875, Life inside the Church of Rome 1889, The Black Pope history of the Jesuits 1896 and many other books, also poems and hymns. d. Leamington 5 June 1899. M. F. Cusack's The story of my life 1891 prt.; Appleton's Cyclop. of American biog. 1887,

38; Julian's Dict. of hymnology, revised ed. 1907 pp. 1556, 1621; I.L.N. 3 Sept. 1892 p. 294; Times 8 June 1899 p. 8.

CUSINS, SIR WILLIAM GEORGE (son of Teeling Cusins of London). b. London 14 Oct. 1833; studied at Brussels conservatoire of music 1845-7, won a king's scholarship at R.A. of music, London Dec. 1847, re-elected 1849, assistant professor 1851, professor; organist of the Queen's private chapel at Windsor 1849; violinist in orchestra of royal Italian opera 1849, violinist at concerts of Philharmonic soc. 1849, conductor 1867-83; master of the music to the Queen 1870, resigned 1 May 1893; professor of pianoforte in Guildhall school of music 1885 to death; knighted at Osborne 5 Aug. 1892; received cross of Isabella the Catholic 1893; composed Royal wedding serenata 1863, 2 cantatas The toilers of the sea 1865 and Love's labour lost 1875, an oratorio Gideon produced at Gloucester musical festival 14 Sept. 1871 also anthems and songs. d. Remouchamps in the Ardennes 31 Aug. 1893, interred at Spa but reinterred in Kensal Green cemet. 30 Oct. 1894. Klein's Thirty years of musical life in London 1903 pp. 192 prt., 474; T. Baker's A biog. dict. of musicians 1900 p. 131 prt.; Buffen's Musical celebrities 1893, series 2 p. 73 prt.; I.L.N. 20 May 1893 p. 594 prt., 9 Sept. 1893 p. 310 prt.

CUSSANS, JOHN EDWIN (5 child of Thomas Cussans lieut. Madras artillery 1 Sept. 1818

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to 1826). b. Plymouth 30 Oct. 1837; employed in a commercial house about 1856-62; sec. of Anglo-Californian bank, 3 Angel court, city of London 1881-96; author of The grammar of heraldry 1866, The handbook of heraldry 1869, 4 ed. 1893, A history of Hertfordshire 3 vols. 1870-81. d. 46 St. John's park, Upper Holloway, London 11 Sept. 1899. Antiquary Oct. 1899 pp. 293-4; Times 15 Sept. 1899 p. 4.

CUST, EDWARDS GEORGE (2 son of Rev. Daniel Mitford Peacock, R. of Staynton-le-Street, Durham 1812 to his death 1840). b. Sedbergh 2 Sept. 1804; educ. St. John's coll. Camb. pensioner 12 Dec. 1822, fellow 1829 to 1832; 11th wrangler 1827; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; ordained deacon 1829, priest 1830; changed his name to Cust 1839; R. of Danby Wiske with Yafforth, Yorkshire 23 March 1840 to 1883; P.C. of Hutton Bonville, Yorkshire 1852-70; hon. canon of Ripon 1861, canon June 1868 to death; archdeacon of Richmond June 1868 to 1894. d. Danby hill near Northallerton 5 June 1895. Times 7 June 1895 p. 3; I.L.N. 15 June 1895 p. 734.

NOTE. He was one of the 12 founders of the Lady Margaret boat club, the first club to start an eight-oared boat on the river Cam Oct. 1825, he rowed bow in the boat Lent term 1826 and Oct. term 1827. Forster and Harris's History of the Lady Margaret boat club 1891 p. 5. CUST, SIR LEOPOLD, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Edward Cust 1 baronet 1794-1878), b. 22 July 1831; educ, Eton and Merton coll. Oxf. B.A. 1853; lieut. North Salop yeomanry 2 Dec. 1867 to 31 May 1873; gentleman usher to the Queen 3 Dec. 1874 to death; succeeded 14 Jany. 1878. d. Cordangan castle, Tipperary 3 March 1878. I.L.N. 16 March 1878 p. 254. CUSTANCE, SIR HAMBLETON FRANCIS (1 child of Hambleton Thomas Custance of Weston house near Norwich 1779-1845). b. 8 Nov.

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1809; captain West Norfolk militia 9 May 1829, lieut. col. commandant 16 May 1854, hon. colonel 17 Aug. 1881 to death; sheriff of Norfolk 1859; K.C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Sept. 1892. Dod's Peerage 1892 p. 258. CUTHBERTSON, FRANCIS (son of Francis Cuthbertson of Aldersgate st. London). b. 3 Dec. 1833; educ. City of London sch. second master 1856 to death; pensioner Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 4 July 1851; migrated to C.C. coll. fellow 1858-63; fourth wrangler 1855; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858, L.L.D. 1875; author of Euclidian geometry 1874, Primer of geometry: easy introduction to Euclid 1876, The test of domicil 1887. d. suddenly at St. Augustine's ch. Highbury, London 1 Dec. 1889. Venn's Biog. history of Gonville and Caius college 1898 i 305; Guardian 4 Dec. 1889 p. 1877.

CUYLER, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (1 son of Sir Cornelius Cuyler, 1 baronet 1741-1819). b. Clarges st., London 29 Jany. 1794; educ. Eton; succeeded 8 March 1819; 2 lieut. 69 foot 24 April 1810, captain 10 June 1813, placed on ĥ.p. 7 Aug. 1817; major 69 foot 29 Aug. 1822, lieut. col. 3 Oct. 1826, sold out 2 Oct. 1835. d. Poole hall, Nantwich 23 July 1862. Boyle's Rifle brigade century 1905 p. 40; I.L.N. 9 Aug. 1862 p. 167.

CUYLER, SIR CHARLES HENRY JOHNES, 3 Baronet (1 son of preceding). b. The Frythe, Welwyn, Herts 22 Jany. 1826; educ. Bridg north sch. and Trin. coll. Camb. ; held an appointment in customs department at Jamaica 1846-52; presiding magistrate of Bay Islands 1852-5; treasurer of British Honduras 185561; receiver general of Trinidad 1861, resigned 1865; succeeded 23 July 1862. d. Oakleaze, Aldmondsbury, Gloucs. 17 Aug. 1885. I.L.N. 29 Aug. 1885 p. 215.