Ella Rose Curtois

Ella Rose Curtois (23 March 1860 – 23 March 1944) Her parents were Atwill Curtois, rector of the village, and his wife Anne Henrietta, who had eleven children between them. Between 1885 and 1897 Curtois exhibited several works at the Royal Academy in London and at the Paris Salon. However, several of her carvings were saved and remounted in the casing of a new church organ.

Curtois lived most of her life in London and in Paris where she died during World War II. Her will left a few small legacies to a friend, but the residue went to the Usher Gallery in Lincoln and was used to erect a new gallery which was opened there in 1959. One of her sisters, Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois was a painter and artist of some note.