Ella Rose Curtois

[2] Her parents were Atwill Curtois, rector of the village, and his wife Anne Henrietta, who had eleven children between them.

[1][2] Ella Rose Curtois created sculpture pieces in both marble and terracotta, usually of genre subjects and portraits.

[2][3] Ella Rose Curtois and her father were responsible for carving the choir screen in Branston church, most of which was destroyed in a fire on Christmas Day 1962.

[5] Curtois lived most of her life in London and in Paris where she died during World War II.

[6] One of her sisters, Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois was a painter and artist of some note.