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 in Stalbridge and educated at Sherborne School and the Royal College of Science. Ordained in 1934, he began his career as a curate 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 before his elevation to the Anglican episcopate in 1973 as bishop of Mauritius until 1976, when he was succeeded by Trevor Huddleston. Later he became the first archbishop of the Indian Ocean.

He died on 15 August 1999.