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CURRAY, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS 1663; rejected at the election of 1665; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1666, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1666, scholar 1667, matr. 1666/7; 2nd in “ordo” 1669/70; BA 1669/70; MA 1676; signed for deacon’s orders (London) 13 Jun 1674.

Currier, David Fletcher, son of Edward Putnam Currier of New York and Dorothy Fletcher of Melrose, Mass.; b. 9 Aug. 1915; adm. 21 Sept. 1933 (B); left July 1934; Yale Univ., AB 1938; USNR 1941-3 (Lieut.); posth. commendation for outstanding performance of duty; m. 8 Mar. 1941 Margaret Pitkin, d. of Richmond L. Brown of Greenwich, Conn.; killed in action in USS Plymouth 5 Aug. 1943.

David Fletcher Currier was born at Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York on the 9th of August 1914 the son of Edward Putnam Currier, a dealer in investment securities, and Dorothy (nee Fletcher) Currier of Tarrytown, New York. He was educated at Milton Academy, Massachusetts and at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from the 21st of September 1933 to July 1934. He was a member of the 1st VI Lawn Tennis team in 1934. He went on to Yale University where he was a member of the Freshman basketball and baseball teams and was a member of the University Baseball Squad, the Fence Club, Scroll and Key, of the Torch Honor Society and of the Calhoun College touch football team in his Sophomore year. He was a member of the National Reserve Officers Training Corps.
He graduated with a BA in 1938 and went to work for Morgan & Lockwood of 44, Wall Street, New York City. He was employed by American Airlines from April 1939 to July 1940.
He was married at Greenwich, Connecticut on the 8th of March 1941 to Margaret Pitkin (nee Brown); they had two children, Barbara and David Fletcher Jr., born on the 10th of January 1943.
He was a member of the New York Local Defence Force from 1938 and undertook a V-7 training course on board the Midshipman’s training ship USS Prairie State from November 1940 to February 1941. On the 18th of August 1941 he was called up for active duty with the United Stated Navy with the rank of Ensign and was posted to the Naval Reserve Training School at Staten Island. He served on inshore patrol duty from Staten Island from the 18th of August to the 12th of November 1941 and served in the Port Director’s Office in New York City from the 12th of November 1941 to the 23rd of February 1942. From the 23rd of February to the 5th of April 1942 he served at the Instructor training School at Fort Schuyler before being posted to the Naval Training School (Local Defence) based at Boston from the 5th of April to September 1942.
He was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade on the 15th of June 1942 and trained at the Sound School at Key West, Florida from the 2nd to the 16th of September 1942. He went on to the Submarine Chaser Training Center at Miami, Florida from the 16th of September to the 29th of October 1942. On the 31st of October 1942 he was appointed as Executive Officer and Navigator on a gunboat and was appointed as its commanding officer on the 8th of February 1943. On the 18th of June 1943 he was posted as Navigator to the patrol gunboat USS Plymouth (PG-57) and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 1st of July 1943.
The USS Plymouth, under the command of Lieutenant Ormsby M. Mitchel Jr. USN, set sail from New York on the 4th of August 1943 as part of an escort for a coastal convoy which was bound for Key West.
At 9.37pm on the 5th of August 1943, the USS Plymouth was sailing some 90 miles off the coast of Elizabeth City, North Carolina when she picked up a contact on her sonar. As she swung to port to bear on the contact she was struck by a torpedo which had been fired by the U Boat U-566, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans Hornkohl. She had been struck just behind the bridge and the explosion forced her to roll to starboard before taking a heavy list to port. Her entire port side forward of the bridge was engulfed in flames and she sank two minutes later with the loss of 95 men from her crew of 179 officers and men. The survivors were picked up by the coast guard cutter USS Calypso and landed at Norfolk, Virginia the following day.
He received a posthumous Citation from the Secretary of the Navy for outstanding performance of his duty.
He is commemorated on the East Coast Memorial, Battery Park, New York.

Curroux, George Felix, son of George Alfred Courroux, C. V. O., of South Kensington,; Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth, by Jane, daughter of Peter Thomas Renaud, chief clerk in the Duchy of Lancaster Office; b. Sept. 15, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left July 1903; Capt. 9th Batt. West Surrey Regt. Dec. 15, 1914; Adjt. Dec. 31, 1914; m. Aug. 26, 1939, Marjorie Susan, daughter of Mason Kidner, of Felpham, Sussex; d. March 9, 1944.

CURRY, ---; b.; at school in 1665 (Busby’s account book).

Curry, Alwyn Ian, son of John Henry Curry, of Croydon, Surrey; b. April 21, 1901; adm. May 2, 1913 (H); left Dec. 1918; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1922; Head Master of St. Andrew's School, Epsom, Surrey; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Sept. 23, 1940; Flying Officer Sept. 23, 1941; d. 10 Nov. 1987.

CURTEEN (or COURTEN), WILLIAM, only son of William Curteen (or Courten), Pirton, Worcs., and Lady Katherine Egerton, seventh dau. of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater; b. 28 Mar 1642; in school lists 1656 (as Curteen, Christian name not stated); a boarder; described as “olim condiscipulus noster” in a letter of Leonard Plukenet (qv); studied at Montpelier, France; returned to England 1663, living with his aunt, Lady Knightley, at Fawley Court, Northants; again on European continent 1670-84; resident in Temple, London from 1684, living under assumed name of Charleton; formed a museum of botanical specimens, acquired after his death by Sir Hans Sloane; d. 29 Mar 1702. DNB.

CURTEIS, EDWARD BARRETT, second son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv); b. 25 Jul 1804; adm. 3 Feb 1815 (Packharness'); shot snipe in osier beds close to the Willow Walk, in the Long Meadow, and in the osiers of the Chelsea Waterworks at Battersea; master of a pack of beagles, kept in the kitchen of 1 Vincent Square, which hunted in Battersea Fields (Elizabethan ii, 130); left 1821; Ensign, 33rd Foot 5 Dec 1822; Lieut., 1st Royal Dragoons 4 Aug 1825; Capt., 7th Dragoon Guards 12 Apr 1827; Maj., 17 Oct 1834; sold out 8 Jul 1836; MP Rye 1832-7; author, Exposure of the corrupt system of elections at Rye, 1853; m. 1st, 9 Mar 1837 Charlotte Lydia, youngest dau. of Thomas Law Hodges MP, Hempstead Park, Kent; m. 2nd, 15 Sep 1841 Frances, eldest dau. of William Kenrick MP, Broome Park, Surrey; d. 14 Dec 1879.

CURTEIS, EDWARD JEREMIAH, only son of Jeremiah Curteis, Tenterden, Kent, and Rye, Sussex, attorney and banker, Town Clerk of Rye, and Jane, dau. of Searles Giles, Biddenden, Kent; b. 6 Jul 1762; adm. 29 Jan 1776; left 17 Jul 1779; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1779; BA 1783; MA 1787; Fellow, Oriel Coll. Oxford 1784-9; adm. Inner Temple year 1777/8, called to bar 1788; MP Sussex 1820-30; partner, Curteis & Co, Rye, Sussex, bankers, to 1811; George Colman’s “honest, openhearted quondam friend Jerry Curteis, as we familiarly called him at Westminster and at Oxford” (Colman, Random Records, I, 305); m. 14 Apr 1789 Mary, only dau. of Rev. Stephen Barrett, Rector of Hothfield, Kent; d. 18 Mar 1835.

CURTEIS, HENRY HERBERT, eldest son of Rev. George Herbert Curteis, Canon of Lichfield and Chaplain of the Savoy, and Elizabeth Anna, eldest dau. of Edmund Robert Ball, Monkstown, co. Dublin; b. 8 Nov 1863; adm. from Rugby Sch. 27 Sep 1877 ( R); left May 1880; Hertford Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1882; BA 1890; engaged in educational work in various parts of the world; latterly living in south of France.