Richard Curteys

Richard Curteys (Curtis) (c.1532?-1582) was an English bishop.

He was born in Lincolnshire, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was elected to a scholarship in 1550. He proceeded B.A. in 1553, was elected a Fellow in 1553, and commenced M.A. in 1556. During the reign of Mary I of England he remained unaffected. He was appointed senior fellow of his college on 22 July 1559. In 1563 he was elected one of the proctors of the university. When Queen Elizabeth visited Cambridge in August 1564, he made a congratulatory oration in Latin to Sir William Cecil, chancellor of the university, on his arrival at St. John's College, and as proctor he took part in the disputation before the queen. In 1565 he proceeded B.D., and made a complaint against Richard Longworth, the Master of his college, and William Fulke one of the fellows, for non-conformity.

He was appointed dean of Chichester about November 1566, and installed in March 1567. Around that he was chaplain to the Queen and Archbishop Matthew Parker. In 1569 it was suggested that he should become Archbishop of York, but Archbishop Parker favoured Edmund Grindal. In the same year he was created D.D. by the University of Cambridge, being admitted in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster, by the Dean Gabriel Goodman.

On the death of William Barlow, Bishop of Chichester, Archbishop Parker wrote to Sir William Cecil recommending Curteys for the vacant see. He was eventually elected to it, though not until April 1570. On 11 April 1571 he was presented by the queen to the vicarage of Ryhall, with the members in Rutland.

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