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Authorised form of nameCreed; John (- 1701); naval administrator
Dates - 1701
Date of death18 September 1701
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Tichmarsh, Northamptonshire, England, Europe (28 September 1701)
ActivityCareer:
Deputy Treasurer of the Fleet (1660); Secretary to the Commissioners for Tangier, who administered the short lived British ruled colony in Tangier (1662-1669)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/12/1663
ProposerWilliam Brouncker
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1666-1667, 1669, 1671, 1673, 1676, 1678, 1680, 1682, 1684, 1686, 1689, 1691, 1693, 1696
Committee and panels:
Committee for the Histories of Trades (1664) ; Committee for Correspondence (1664)
Other Royal Society activityProposed on 9 December 1663 and was admitted on the same day he was elected
RelationshipsSiblings: Richard Creed
Married: Elizabeth Pickering
Children: in total eleven; incl. Richard Creed; John Creed
Additional relatives: uncle-in-law 1st Earl of Sandwich (FRS 1663)
OtherInfoCreed was a close associate of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, and through him, formed a companionship and correspondence with Montagu's cousin Samuel Pepys (FRS 1665).
After the colony in Tangier was abandoned, Creed as a former commissioner received compensation of just under £100 for personal property left there.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Hunter; ODNB
References:
Da Costa Andrade, E N. 1963. 'Samuel Pepys and the Royal Society', in Notes and Records, vol. 18, pp. 82-93
Notes:
Last appears in 1699 PL. In DNB under Elizabeth Creed
CodeNA5737
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/390/42Bond of John Creed to the Treasurer of the Royal Society30 November 1674
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