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 School 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

1. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
2. ↑ Genealogical web site
3. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
4. ↑ 'AA/AP/Ramsey/4-287/1966/103/73, 76') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
5. ↑ ”Turbulent Priest” McGrandle,P: London, Continuum, 2004 ISBN 0-8264-7123-4

v t e 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

v t e Archbishops of the Indian Ocean Edwin Curtis Trevor Huddleston French Chang-Him Remi Rabenirina Ian Ernest

Persondata
Name	Curtis, Ernest Edwin
Alternative names
Short description	British archbishop
Date of birth	1906
Place of birth
Date of death	1999
Place of death