William Curtis

William Curtis of Chesterton (1761-1829) was the son of the Rev. Thomas Curtis of Linton. He was for some time Robert Robinson’s assistant and amanuensis and later the manager of Robinson’s Chesterton farm.  He married Robinson’s daughter, Ellen, in 1786, and later assisted William Frend in preparing Robinson’s Ecclesiastical Researches (1792) for the press.   Apparently he withdrew from St. Andrew’s shortly after Robert Hall’s arrival in 1791. From 1791 to 1801, he was the innkeeper at the Cardinal’s Cap, and later (1801-14) at The Hoop, in Bridge-street, Cambridge.  See Church Book: St. Andrew’s Street xiv, 71, 73,75-76, 125, 137; Cambridge Intelligencer 16 May 1801, 28 November 1801.