Background
Cutts was born on 2 March 1824 in Sheffield. He was the son of John Priston Cutts, an optician, and Mary, daughter of Robert Waterhouse.
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Edward Cutts
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He was educated at Sheffield Collegiate School and graduated Bachelor of Arts at Queens" College, Cambridge, in 1848.
Career
Being ordained in the same year, he was curate successively of Ide Hill, Kent, until 1850, of Coggeshall, Essex, until 1857, and of Kelvedon until 1859, and was perpetual curate of Billericay until 1865. He had already acted also as local organising secretary of the Additional Curates Society, and on leaving Billericay became general secretary of the society in London, resigning in 1871, on presentation to the vicarage of Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill. Although accepting the ecclesiastical views of the high church party, he was sympathetic with every school of thought within the church.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of the South.
Cutts died at Holy Trinity Vicarage, Haverstock Hill, on 2 September 1901, and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Woking. Mistress Cutts died on 14 December 1889.
Cutts devoted himself to archæology and the study of ecclesiastical history. In 1849 he published "A Manual for the Study of the Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses of the Middle Ages." This was followed in 1853 by "Colchester Castle not a Roman Temple." From 1852 to 1866 he was honorary secretary of the Essex Archæological Society and editor of its "Transactions." Cutts was also a contributor to The Art Journal.
The most notable of his religious works are ‘A Devotional History of Our Lord’ (1882) and ‘Some Chief Truths of Religion’ (1875), which was translated into Swahili and printed at the Universities Mission Press at Zanzibar in 1895.
