CURWEN, Eldred (1692-1745), of Workington and Sella Park, Cumb.

The Curwens of Sella Park were a junior branch of a leading Cumberland family, who had often represented the county. On the extinction of the senior branch in 1725 Workington passed to Henry Curwen of Sella Park, who was succeeded on his death in 1727 by his brother, Eldred. In 1737 the death of their first cousin, Sir Wilfred Lawson, 3rd Bt., created a vacancy at Cockermouth, for which Eldred Curwen was returned on the Lawson interest. He voted for the Spanish convention in 1739, was not put up in 1741, and died in January 1745.