William Roscoe Wilson Curl

{{Short description|American judge}}

William Roscoe Wilson Curl was a Virginia lawyer and judge. Born in Tidewater, Virginia, Curl studied law and then practiced in the county courts. He was made a judge of the Court of Admiralty in 1777 and thus automatically became a justice of the first Virginia Court of Appeals (now the Supreme Court of Virginia). He died a short time later, by February 1782.{{cite web|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of Virginia|url=http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Judges_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Virginia|website=Encyclopedia of Virginia|publisher=Virginia Foundation for the Humanities|accessdate=16 March 2015}}{{cite book|last1=Call|first1=Daniel|title=Virginia Reports: Jefferson--33 Grattan, 1730-1880|date=1902|publisher=Michie Company|page=626|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S0YMAAAAYAAJ&dq=William+Roscoe+Wilson+Curl&pg=PA622-IA2|accessdate=16 March 2015}}