Of Workington Hall, Cumberland, the son of John Christian Curwen; he was a JP and High Sheriff of Cumberland (1834). His daughter Isabella married Wordsworth's son John in 1830.

REFERENCES TO Henry Christian Curwen:

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [30 July 1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)