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CURTIS—CURZON. Capt. Curry was soon, by commission dated 7 Jan. 1802, promoted to Post-rank, and appointed to the, 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 100, attached to the fleet in the Channel – 30 April, 1805, of the  32, stationed off Cherbourg – and, 23 Jan. 1806, and 24 Sept. 1811, of the  44, and  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 120,  80, and  110, officiated as Flag-Captain to Sir Mauley Dixon, Commander-in-Chief at. 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,, is a Captain, R.N. another, Robert Murray, First-Lieutenant, R.M., commanded, while attached to the 84, a company at the storming of Sidon, and served at the siege of Acre in 1840.

 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

This officer entered the Navy 25 April, 1831; passed his examination 6 Sept. 1837; and served for some time, as Mate, on board the 42, Capt. John Leith, stationed in North America and the West Indies, as also in the  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, 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. He has been First-Lieutenant, since 19 Dec. 1846, of the 12, Capt. Robert Tryon, attached to the Channel squadron.

 CURTIS, Bart., C.B.

, born 3 June, 1786, is only surviving son of Admiral the late Sir Roger Curtis, Bart., G.C.B., 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 100, bearing his father’s flag in the Channel; served next for 18 months in the, 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  98, and  64, flag-ships of Sir R. Curtis, on the Home, Mediterranean, and Cape of Good Hope stations. On 24 Sept. 1803, he joined the 74, Capt. Frank Sotheron, and on his return to the Mediterranean was confirmed, 16 Nov. 1804, in the command of the  sloop, from which he removed, 19 June, 1805, to the  18. Being promoted to Post-rank, 22 Jan. 1806, Capt. Curtis subsequently assumed command, 9 Jan. 1809, of the 36, and, proceeding to the Cape, assisted at the reduction of Isle Bourbon in July, 1810. 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 of 8 killed and 20 wounded, in the unavoidable self-destruction of that ship and the, the capture of the , and the surrender to a powerful French force of the , 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. 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 36, and  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 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, and, are in the R.N.  – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 CURTIS. 

, born 9 Nov. 1812, is eldest son of 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 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 2, receiving-ship at Malta. Since his attainment of the rank he now holds, 9 Nov. 1846, Commander Curtis has been on half-pay. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 CURTIS. 

, born 8 May, 1816, is second son of

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 110, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Edw. Codrington, and 36, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, employed in the East Indies. He was then appointed to the 42, Capt. Chas. Hope, on the same station – and since 12 Dec. 1845, has been attached to the 104, and  2, bearing the flags, in the Mediterranean and at Malta, of Sir Wm. Parker and Sir Lucius Curtis. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 CURZON, C.B., K.S.L., K.S.V., R.G.

was born 9 Dec. 1789. This officer entered the Navy, 7 Nov. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capt. Hon.