Richard Curwen

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Richard Curwen, D.D. was an English Anglican priest in the 16th century. [1]

Curwen was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. [2] He held the living at St Michael, Crooked Lane in the City of London and was a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral. He was appointed Archdeacon of Oxford in 1535. [3] and Archdeacon of Colchester in 1537, [4] holding both positions until his death in 1543.

Notes

  1. "Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin" D'Alton, J. p235: Dublin; Hodges and Smith; 1838
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Covert-Cutts
  3. King, H.P.F. (1962), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 1, p. 14
  4. Horn, Joyce M. (1963), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 5, p. 13


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