Cureton, William, Syriac scholar, born in Shropshire, assistant-keeper of MSS. at the British Museum; applied himself to the study and collation of Syriac MSS., and discovered, among other relics, a version of the Epistle of Ignatius; was appointed canon of Westminster (1808‒1864).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cure`tes * Curiatii