Curteis

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Curteis 28.11.1805 at Joseph Johnson's

Perhaps Edward Jeremiah Curteis History of Parliamnet 1762-1835 MP for Sussex 1820-1830 by then a Tory but had been a member of Society for Constitutional Information, proposed 27.2.1784 as Jeremiah Curties of Inner Temple by James West, 2nded John Baynes. See Westminster School Register for date of birth, mother &c.  He was rebaptised as Edward Jeremiah in 1788 and called to the bar that year. He married in 1789 Mary dau of Rev Stephen Barrett of Hothfield, Kent. Member of Society of Friends of the People 1792. He contributed to the Gents Mag on antiquarian issues. From 1801 his residence was at Windmill House, Wartling, Sussex. He voted for the Whig candidate Honywood in Kent in 1802. His father Jeremiah Curteis will PCC 1807 was an attorney and many years town clerk of Rye, Sussex. His daughter Anna Katharine Elwood DNB 1796-1873.

There was also a Dr Curteis master of the grammar school at Linton Cambs c.1800 (see John Ayrton Paris DNB 1785-1836). Rev Samuel Curteis 1768-1844 was master of Sunbury school, Ll D 1808 (Alum Cantab). Another Samuel Curteis was a medical doctor in Mountnessing, Essex whose son William Calverley Curteis was baptised there in 1799 (Alum Ox). Then there was Thomas Isaac Horsley Curties bapt Gressenhall Norfolk 16.11.1777 son of John & Ann Curtiss. He wrote novels, at first for the Minerva Press, from 1799 to 1807. Some of his novels came to a new edition in 1832. He was in the Yeomen of the Guard from 1805 (so seems an unlikely guest at Johnson's), was knighted in 1833 and died unmarried in 1858 (Boase).