Background
Curtis was born on 11 July 1833, the son of Charles Berwick Curtis, of 105 Eaton Square, London.
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Curtis married Margaret Tupper Carey of the Guernsey Careys. Her brother, the sea captain Charles James Carey died at Curtis"s home of Totteridge House in north London in 1891. Curtis began his career in the City of London around 1854 with the firm of Bosanquet & Madden, a firm of West Indian merchants, with interests in British Guiana and Jamaica.
In 1801, upon the retirement of Bosanquet senior, he became a partner.
The firm was subsequently called Hogg, Curtis, Campbell, and Company, and, then Curtis, Campbell, and Company
Foreign over 45 years, Curtis was a director of the Colonial Bank, an institution with extensive trading interests in the West Indies. In 1878 he became a director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, which was originally formed to conduct the mail service of the West Indies.
In May 1881, not long after Mary Seacole"s death, Curtis wrote to the editor of The Times, asking that Mary"s sister in Jamaica be remembered as she had fallen into near poverty after being too generous with her money. Curtis was a magistrate for Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
Curtis died from heart failure at 24 Longridge Road, London, South.W., on 26 February 1913.
Membership
He was also a director of the Indemnity Marine Assurance Company and a member of the Executive and treasurer of the West India Committee.
