Patrick Curtis (bishop)

Patrick Curtis (1740 – 26 July 1832) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Whilst in Spain he was spymaster of a network that provided military intelligence to Wellesley's Anglo-Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War.

It is also thought to have paved the way to Catholic Emancipation, to which the Anglo-Irish Wellington was a late but genuine convert.

After his return to Ireland, he lived on a British Government pension until he was appointed the archbishop of the Metropolitan see of Armagh by the Propaganda Fide on 2 August and confirmed by Pope Gregory XVI on 8 August 1819.

[2] He is featured in the TV series Sharpe where he is portrayed by the actor John Kavanagh.