Roger curtis biography
Admiral Sir Roger Curtis, 1st Baronet GCB was an officer of the British Royal Navy, who saw action in several battles during an extensive career that was punctuated by a number of highly controversial incidents.
Roger Curtis was..
Dictionary of National Biography, /Curtis, Roger
CURTIS, Sir ROGER (–), admiral, was the son of Mr. Roger Curtis of Downton in Wiltshire, and presumably descended from that Roger Curtis who served with Sir John Lawson on board the Swiftsure, and was slain at Algiers in (Cal.
of State Papers, Dom. 7 Feb. ). He entered the navy in , on board the Royal Sovereign, with Vice-admiral Holburne; and after the peace served in the Assistance on the coast of Africa, in the Augusta guardship at Portsmouth, and for three years in the Gibraltar frigate in Newfoundland.
Sir Rogert Curtis, 1st Baronet (4 June – 14 November ) was an Admiral of the Royal Navy of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.In he joined the Venus with Captain Barrington, whom he followed to the Albion. He was made lieutenant in , and was again sent to Newfoundland in the Otter sloop. There he had the good fortune to attract the notice of the governor, Captain (afterwards Lord) Shuldham, who, having attained his flag, was in appointed commander-in-chief on the North American station, took Curtis with him as a lieutenant of the flagship, and t