Francis Curnow (died 24 April 1901) was the third commissioner of the Queensland Railway Department in Australia.
Curnow was the third person to hold this position, superseding Arthur Orpen Herbert who became the Under Secretary for Railways.
[3] The appointment of the Board of Commissioners on 29 July 1889 prompted Francis Curnow to retire from the railways with a pension of £500.
Hellesvere was a timber cottage with a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof containing an attic with dormer windows on the northern and southern sides.
[1] Curnow died on 24 April 1901 from heart failure caused by typhoid fever at his home Hellesvere.