1837-1839 Governor of Bank of England
Later bankrupt.
"The private balance sheet of Mr. Timothy Abraham Curtis, presented to the Court of Bankruptcy when that gentleman failed, exhibited a sample of the income netted from directorship... between £800 and £900 a year. Mr. Curtis having been associated with the Courts of the Bank of England, and the East India House, it was considered quite a plum for a public company to acquire his services in the boardroom" (pp. 81, 82). The remuneration of the directors of such companies for each weekly meeting is at least one guinea. The proceedings of the Court of Bankruptcy show that these wages of supervision were, as a rule, inversely proportional to the actual supervision performed by these nominal directors."
Later joined a railway company? .... As his foreman Bury took on James Kennedy (1797 – 1886) a millwright from Edinburgh who had previously been with Stephenson in 1834/5 and Mather Dixon & Co. from 1826. In 1842 Bury made him a partner and with the addition of Timothy Abraham Curtis the firm was thereafter known as Bury, Curtis & Kennedy.
of London