CUTHBERT, H.J.
Published 'Carabus cancellatus Ill. in West Cork' in EMM., 31, 1895, p.265. (MD 4/02)
CURTIS, William
Well known botanist and author of a number of important publications on this subject, in particular the Flora Londiensis, from 1777, and the Botanical Magazine from 1781. He was not related to John Curtis (see above). Born in Alton, Hampshire, the son of a tanner. Apprenticed at the age of fourteen to his grandfather, an apothecary. At the age of twenty moved to London to complete his medical education. Quickly associated himself with a Mr Talwin, licentiate of the Apothecaries Company, to whose practice he eventually succeeded.
CURTIS, John
Born in Norwich, the elder brother of Charles Morgan (see above). Interested himself in natural history at an early age, particularly insects, and became friendly with Richard Walker, a local naturalist, and later the author of Flora Oxiensis, by whom he was much influenced, and with Dr (later Sir James) Edward Smith and with the Hooker family. The young Hooker (later Sir W.J.) is known to have helped Curtis with the naming of insects. At school he also became friendly with Henry Browne, whose mother had a collection of Lepidoptera, which Curtis is known to have studied.
CURTIS, Charles Morgan
Entomological illustrator and brother of John Curtis (see below). Born in Norwich the second son of this name (the first died at the age of 5 of Charles Morgan Curtis, an engraver and sign writer, and possibly a verger, who himself died shortly after the birth of Charles Morgan junior. He moved to London and made his reputation as an artist of natural history subjects which Bryant, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, 1899, records 'he drew with much accuracy and spirit'.
CUMMING, W.D.
Arrow (1917) records that Cumming collected Rutelinae in Baluchistan. Is this perhaps the same Cumming that E.C.Bedwell collected with in 1914-21? (See his collecting diary covering this period in the Castle Museum, Norwich). Perhaps it is also the same Cumming whose collection in two cabinets was donated to the RHS by P.T.Cumming in the late 1960s (Information from Andy Salisbury) (MD 4/02, 1/07)
CUMMING, Peter Thomas
Collected Coleoptera and was interested in the insect photography. Lived at West Horsley, near Leatherhead, Surrey. FRES 1961-62. (MD 3/03)
CUMING, Hugh
Well known naturalist and conchologist who has been described as the 'Prince of Collectors'. Cuming was born at West Alvington in Devon, and emigrated to Chile at the age of 28. He began collecting shells in the South Pacific region in 1821, returning to England in 1831. Between 1836 and 1839 he visited the Philippines. F.W. Hope, 'Characters and descriptions of several new genera and species of Coleopterous insects', Trans.ZSL, 1, 1835, p.106, records that he named Prionus cumingii after Cuming who obtained it at Concepcion and Valparaiso on the trunks of trees.
CULLEY, Mrs R.
A typescript list of accessions between 1825-32 in the Castle Museum, Norwich, records that Mrs Culley gave a specimen of Cetonia to the Norwich Society in 1826. (MD 4/02)
CRUTTWELL, Charles Thomas
An eminent cleric and at one time one of the country's foremost classical scholars. Cruttwell was appointed Headmaster of Bradfield School in 1878 and in 1880 took up the same position at Malvern. While at the latter he married the daughter of Sir Robert Mowbray, who was known as the 'Father' of the House of Commons. In 1891 he accepted the College Living of Kibworth-Beauchamp, Leicestershire, where he was made Rural Dean, Honorary Canon of Peterborough, and Proctor in Convocation.
CROZIER, George
Also mentioned by W.E.Sharp (see above) in this category. Lived at Eccleston in the Fylde. (MD 4/02)