Patricius Curwen
Sir Patricius Curwen, 1st Baronet (c. 1602 – 15 December 1664) of Workington Hall, Cumberland was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1643 and from 1661 to 1664. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War
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Curwen was the son of Sir Henry Curwen of Workington in Cumberland. The Curwen family-owned iron ore mines at Harrington and the account books of Curwen's steward contain many references to iron ore.[1] Curwen was apparently a generous landlord who between 1628 and 1643 paid his harvesters with food and wages and provided a piper to play in the fields for the time of the harvest.[2] In 1627 he was created a baronet, of Workington in the County of Cumberland.
Curwen served as a
Curwen died in December 1664 at the age of 62 and was buried at Workington. He had married Lady Isabella Selby, daughter of Sir George Selby of Whitehouse in Durham but their only son Henry had died in 1636.[5] Curwen's Workington estate therefore passed to his brother Thomas and the baronetcy became extinct.[4] In his will he bequeathed money to build and maintain a school at Harrington which was known as the Patricius Curwen School.[6]
References
- ^ Thomas Stuart Willan Trade and transport: essays in economic history in honour of T. S. Willan
- ^ Robert Hutton The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
- ^ Eneas Mackenzie An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the county of Northumberland .. Mackenzie and Dent, 1825
- ^ a b c "CURWEN, Patricius (1602–1664), of Workington, Cumb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 67, Part 2 (1797)
- ISBN 978-1-150-13081-6