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CURTIS—CURZON.
Capt. Curry was soon, by commission dated 7 Jan. 1802, promoted to Post-rank, and appointed to the Tigre, of 74 guns, which ship he brought home and paid off in Oct. following. We afterwards find him assuming the successive command – 13 April, 1803, of the Royal Sovereign 100, attached to the fleet in the Channel – 30 April, 1805, of the Tribune 32, stationed off Cherbourg – and, 23 Jan. 1806, and 24 Sept. 1811, of the Roebuck 44, and Solebay 32, flag-ships of Admiral Billy Douglas, Lord Gardner, and Robt. Murray, Commanders-in-Chief at North Yarmouth, where he remained until the peace of 1814. From May, 1830, to May, 1833, he next, in the Caledonia 120, Foudroyant 80, and San Josef 110, officiated as Flag-Captain to Sir Mauley Dixon, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore [errata 1]. Since his original promotion to Flag-rank, 10 Jan. 1837, he has been on half-pay. His present commission bears date 9 Nov. 1846.
Vice-Admiral Curry, who has received a gold medal for his services in Egypt, was nominated a C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. He married, 18 Jan. 1804, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Daniel Blachford, Esq., of Lower Tooting, co. Surrey, and has 11 children now living. One of his sons, Douglas, is a Captain, R.N. another, Robert Murray, First-Lieutenant, R.M., commanded, while attached to the Thunderer 84, a company at the storming of Sidon, and served at the siege of Acre in 1840.
CURTIS. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Alfred John Curtis is youngest son of Timothy Abraham Curtis, Esq., by Margaret Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Young Green, Esq., of Poole, co. Dorset; nephew of the present Sir Wm. Curtis, Bart., and of Capt. Timothy Curtis, R.N. (1826), who died in Oct. 1834; and cousin of Lieut. Geo. Curtis Adams, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 25 April, 1831; passed his examination 6 Sept. 1837; and served for some time, as Mate, on board the Seringapatam 42, Capt. John Leith, stationed in North America and the West Indies, as also in the North Star 26, Capt. Sir Jas. Everard Home, under whom he appears to have been employed during the campaign in China. He obtained his commission 18 Nov. 1842; and continuing attached to the North Star, on the Indian station, until paid off in the summer of 1846, was mentioned as having served on shore in command, in Jan. of that year, of a division of seamen, and as having made himself otherwise extremely useful during an attack on a pah, belonging to a rebel chief named Kawiti, at Ruapikapika, in New Zealand, which was assaulted and carried in a most gallant manner, after a severe action of nearly four hours.[1] He has been First-Lieutenant, since 19 Dec. 1846, of the Mutine 12, Capt. Robert Tryon, attached to the Channel squadron.
CURTIS, Bart., C.B. (Rear-Admiral, of the Red, 1838. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
Sir Lucius Curtis, born 3 June, 1786, is only surviving son of Admiral the late Sir Roger Curtis, Bart., G.C.B.,[2] by Sarah, youngest daughter and coheir of M. Brady, Esq., of Gatcombe House, co. Hants; and younger brother of Capt. Roger Curtis, R.N., who died in 1801.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 June, 1795, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing his father’s flag in the Channel; served next for 18 months in the Royal William, flag-ship at Spithead of Sir Peter Parker; and from Aug. 1798, until Jan. 1803, was further employed, as Midshipman and Lieutenant (commission dated 11 Aug. 1801), in the Prince 98, and Lancaster 64, flag-ships of Sir R. Curtis, on the Home, Mediterranean, and Cape of Good Hope stations. On 24 Sept. 1803, he joined the Excellent 74, Capt. Frank Sotheron, and on his return to the Mediterranean was confirmed, 16 Nov. 1804, in the command of the Jalouse sloop, from which he removed, 19 June, 1805, to the Rose 18. Being promoted to Post-rank, 22 Jan. 1806, Capt. Curtis subsequently assumed command, 9 Jan. 1809, of the Magicienne 36, and, proceeding to the Cape, assisted at the reduction of Isle Bourbon in July, 1810.[3] We then find him taking part in a variety of gallant but unfortunate operations which, by 28 Aug. following, terminated, after a loss to the Magicienne of 8 killed and 20 wounded, in the unavoidable self-destruction of that ship and the Sirius, the capture of the Nereide, and the surrender to a powerful French force of the Iphigenia, the last of a squadron of frigates, originally under the orders of Commodore Sam. Pym, at the entranoe of Port Sud-Est, Isle of France.[4] On his return to England, after suffering several months of cruel captivity, Capt. Curtis was successively appointed, 17 Jan. 1812, and 13 Feb. 1813, to the command of the Iphigenia 36, and Madagascar 38, from the latter of which frigates he invalided in June, 1814. He attained his present rank 28 June, 1838; and since 8 March, 1843, has been employed as Admiral-Superintendent at Malta, with his flag on board the Ceylon 2.
Sir Lucius Curtis was nominated a C.B. 4 June, 1815. He married, 1 June, 1811, Mary Figg, eldest daughter of Moses Greetham, Esq., of East Cosham, co. Hants, formerly Deputy Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, and by that lady, who died 30 May, 1841, had issue, with three daughters, four sons, of whom the two eldest, Roger and Roger Curtis, are in the R.N. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
CURTIS. (Commander, 1846.)
Roger Curtis, born 9 Nov. 1812, is eldest son of Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., C.B. This officer entered the Navy 6 Oct. 1825; passed his examination in 1831; and obtained his first commission 28 June, 1838. He was appointed, 14 Aug. following, to the Action 26, Capt. Robt. Russell, on the South American station; and, on 21 March, 1843, was invested, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father, with the command of the Ceylon 2, receiving-ship at Malta. Since his attainment of the rank he now holds, 9 Nov. 1846, Commander Curtis has been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
CURTIS. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Roger Lucius Curtis, born 8 May, 1816, is second son of Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy 24 Dec. 1830; passed his examination 6 April, 1836; and prior to his promotion, which took place 16 April, 1842, served, as Mate, on board the Queen 110, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington, and Cambrian 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, employed in the East Indies. He was then appointed to the Thalia 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, on the same station – and since 12 Dec. 1845, has been attached to the Hibernia 104, and Ceylon 2, bearing the flags, in the Mediterranean and at Malta, of Sir Wm. Parker and Sir Lucius Curtis. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
CURZON, C.B., K.S.L., K.S.V., R.G. (Captain, 1823. f-p., 15; h-p., 28.)
Edward Curzon was born 9 Dec. 1789. This officer entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Repulse 74, Capt. Hon.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1846, p. 2346.
- ↑ This gallant officer, so well known to every reader of naval history, attained post-rank in 1777. For his distinguished conduct, when Capt. of the Brilliant frigate, at the Siege of Gibraltar, particularly at the destruction of the floating batteries on 13 Sept. 1783, he received the honour of knighthood; and for his subsequent heroism, as Lord Howe’s first Captain in the Queen Charlotte on the memorable 1 June, 1794, was rewarded with a baronetcy, and presented with a gold chain and medal. As a Rear and Vice-Admiral, Sir Roger afterwards held a command in the Channel Fleet) and from 1799 to 1808 was Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. He died a full Admiral of the Red, 14 Nov. 1816.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1681.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1810, p. 1978, and Gaz. 1811, p. 261.
