John Curtis

Who was John Curtis?

The Rt. Rev. John Curtis, DD, MA was an Irish missionary of the Anglican Church.

He was born in Dublin on 15 March 1880, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1904. He was a curate at Christ Church, Leeson Park in his home city after which he joined the Dublin University Mission to Fukien; he married Eda Bryan-Brown, a fellow missionary who was also a doctor. Curtis was an army chaplain during the war of 1914-18 and in 1914 married Eda Bryan-Brown who had been working in Fukien since 1909. He was Bishop of Chekiang, China, from 1929 to 1950, during which period the Nationalist, Communist and Japanese armies fought over the country. On his return to England he was made Vicar of Wilden, Stourport, and retired in 1957. The Bishop and his wife had two children. He died on 11 July 1962 and his widow on 18 January 1964.