Edwin Curtis

He was born on Christmas Eve, 1906 “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} in Stalbridge{{cite web |url=http://www.ukgenealogyarchives.org.uk/cgi-bin/gid.cgi?actiontotake=View+Record&individ=009210&First_Names=Ernest%20Edwin&Surname=Curtis |title=The Genealogical Information Database |access-date=25 July 2009 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718131548/http://www.ukgenealogyarchives.org.uk/cgi-bin/gid.cgi?actiontotake=View+Record&individ=009210&First_Names=Ernest%20Edwin&Surname=Curtis |archive-date=18 July 2011 }} and educated at Foster's School in Sherborne and Imperial College London, becoming an associate member of the Royal College of Science in 1927.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1999_09_10_006|title=Church Times: "The Most Revd Ernest Edwin Curtis", 10 September 1999, p 6|access-date=11 May 2021}} After teaching at Lindisfarne College, Westcliff-on-Sea, he trained for ordination at Wells Theological College.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1999_09_10_006|title=Church Times: "The Most Revd Ernest Edwin Curtis", 10 September 1999, p 6|access-date=11 May 2021}}

Made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1933 (11 June){{Church Times | title = Trinity ordinations | archive = 1933_06_16_733 | issue = 3673 | date = 16 June 1933 | page = 733 | accessed = 6 March 2021 }} and ordained priest the following Trinity (27 May 1934) — both times by Michael Furse, Bishop of St Albans, at St Albans Cathedral,{{Church Times | title = Trinity ordinations | archive = 1934_06_01_682 | issue = 3723 | date = 1 June 1934 | page = 682 | accessed = 6 March 2021 }} he began his career as a curate at Holy Trinity, Waltham Cross. From 1937 to 1944 he was chaplain in charge of Rose Hill and Bambous, Mauritius and principal of St Paul's Theological College. On his return to England he was priest in charge of St Wilfrid, Portsmouth, then vicar of All Saints, in the same city. After this he was rural dean of AlverstokeCrockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} before his elevation to the Anglican episcopate in 1966 as Bishop of Mauritius until 1976, when he was succeeded by Ghislain Emmanuel, the first native Mauritian bishop but who died soon after his consecration, and then Trevor Huddleston.{{cite book|last=McGrandle|first=Piers |title=Trevor Huddleston: Turbulent Priest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svBjK-VJT7cC|year=2004|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-7123-9}} Curtis was consecrated a bishop on All Saints' Day (1 November) 1966, by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1966_11_04_001 | issue = 5412 | date = 4 November 1966 | page = 1 | accessed = 6 March 2021 }} Later he became the first archbishop of the Indian Ocean.{{Cite web | title = Curtis; Ernest Edwin (1906–1999); archbishop of the Indian Ocean | author = | work = Lambeth Palace Library | date = | access-date = 28 May 2016 | url = http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=DS%2fUK%2f4773&pos=1 | quote = }}

He married Dorothy Hill in 1937, and had a son and a daughter. After his first wife's death, he married secondly, in 1970, Evelyn Josling.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/view/pagview/ChTm_1999_09_10_006|title=Church Times: "The Most Revd Ernest Edwin Curtis", 10 September 1999, p 6|access-date=11 May 2021}} He died on 15 August 1999 at the age of 92.

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