Charles Vandeleur Creagh

Charles Vandeleur Creagh CMG was born on 4 October 1842. He was the second son of Captain John Creagh, RN of Cahirbane Co. Clare, Ireland. He died on 18 September 1917

1 Career
2 Contributions
3 Honor
4 Sources
5 References

Career

Creagh was educated at the Royal Naval School, New Cross and Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy at Southsea . He was a barrister at the Middle Temple. He posted as the Assistant Resident of Perak, Governor of North Borneo (1888 - 1895) and Commander-in-Chief Labuan (1891 - 1895).^[1]

Contributions

He donated his collection of Bornean plants to Kew Gardens.

Honor

He was made a CMG in 1890. The Bauhinia Creaghi Baker, a Caesalpiniaceae family plant species was named after him. The Creagh Road in Taiping was named after him.

Sources

Victor Plarr, Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, 1899
Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, 1918
Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists: Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers, 1977
Bauhinia Creaghi Baker

References

^ "CREAGH, Charles Vandeleur". Who's who, biographies, 1905: page 369. http://books.google.com/books?id=iEVLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA369.

Government offices
Preceded by William Maunder Crocker	Governor of North Borneo 1888-1895	Succeeded by Leicester Paul Beaufort

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Name	Creagh, Charles Vandeleur
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Date of birth	1842
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Date of death	1917
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