John Curtis (died 1813)

John Curtis (died 1813)

John Curtis ("c." 1751 – 30 November 1813) was a British Member of Parliament. The son of a Bristol merchant, he was MP for Wells in Somerset from 1782 to 1784; in 1784 he stood at Saltash (Cornwall), where he was defeated, but returned the House of Commons as MP for Steyning (Sussex) from 1791 to 1794.

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* Lewis Namier & John Brooke, "The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790" (London: HMSO, 1964)


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