Edwin Curtis

The Most Rev Ernest Edwin Curtis was an Anglican Archbishop in the second half of the 20th century. He was born on Christmas Eve, 1906 ^[1] in Stalbridge^[2] and educated at Sherborne and the Royal College of Science.  Ordained in 1934, he began his career with a curacy 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 Alverstoke ^[3] before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Mauritius. Later he became the first Archbishop of the Indian Ocean^[4]. He died on 15 August 1999.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Alan Francis Bright Rogers	Bishop of Mauritius 1966 – 1972	Succeeded by Ghislain Elwyn Emmanuel
Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Archbishop of the Indian Ocean 1973 – 1976	Succeeded by Trevor Huddleston^[5]

Notes

^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
^ Genealogical web site
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0108153674
^ 76') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
^ ”Turbulent Priest” McGrandle,P: London, Continuum, 2004 ISBN 0826471234

Bishops of Mauritius

Vincent Ryan • Thomas Hatchard • Henry Huxtable • Peter Royston • William Walsh • Walter Pym • Francis Gregory • Cyril Golding-Bird • Hugh Otter-Barry • Alan Rogers • Edwin Curtis • Ghislain Emmanuel • Trevor Huddleston • Rex Donat • Ian Ernest

Archbishops of the Indian Ocean

Ernest Edwin Curtis • Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston • French Chang-Him • Remi Rabenirina • Ian Ernest

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Name	Curtis, Ernest Edwin
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Date of birth	1906
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Date of death	1999
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