Charles Berwick Curtis (18 March 1795 – 26 October 1876) was a manufacturer of gunpowder who was also deputy chairman of a life insurance company.
His son, Spencer Henry Curtis (1833–1913), was a successful merchant associated with companies that traded with the West Indies.
[citation needed] In 1841, Curtis obtained a patent, Particulars of a Method or Methods, by Self-acting Apparatus to be used on Railways, for obviating collisions between successive trains, etc which was published by Stewart & Murray of London in that year.
[3] He was also deputy chairman of the United Kingdom Life Assurance Company.
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