Currie was born on 16 June 1903 in Leeds, the third son of James Irvine Currie, wholesaler clothier, and Florence Emma, née Dixon. His uncle Hugh Currie, a surgeon in Johnannesburg, was at the relief of Ladysmith. An elder brother, Donald Currie, gained his FRCS in 1923. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University, where he gained the surgical prize and the Gold Medal and first class honours in his finals. He was house surgeon at Leeds to Joseph Dobson and E R Flint for a year and then resident casualty officer for two years. He also spent four months at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. He studied for his FRCS on a course at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and obtained it in 1930. Carlton Oldfield and William Gough particularly influenced him. In 1930 he was appointed junior house surgeon at Leeds Maternity Hospital, later senior resident in charge, and from 1932 to 1936 university lecturer in gynaecology. He subsequently became senior lecturer, a position that he retained till his retirement in 1968 from his appointment as obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the United Leeds Hospitals, as well as at Wakefield, Dewsbury and Batley. He gained extensive knowledge from visits to centres in England and overseas, particularly with the Gynaecological Travellers' Club. He developed the treatment of carcinoma of the cervix uteri by radiation and radical surgery with excellent results; and published several papers, some by request, on Wertheim's hysterectomy in the *Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Commonwealth* and in Rob and Smith's *Operative surgery*. In his younger days he was a notable Rugby player who played for Otley and for Yorkshire. Later his main interest was gardening. In 1932 he married Jean Borthwik Keppie. They had one son, a consultant neurologist in Leeds, and two daughters, of whom the younger is an SRN. He died on 19 May 1979.