James Creed

For the Irish nationalist, see James Creed Meredith.

Sir James Creed (c. 1695-7 February 1762) was an English merchant and politician.

Creed was a merchant of London and a director of the Honourable East India Company.[1] He was in business in the manufacture of white lead, for which he obtained a patent in December 1749.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February, 1743.[3]

In 1754 Creed was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury and held the seat to 1761.[4]

Creed was buried at St Alphage, Greenwich where there is a marble monument in memory.[5]

References

  1. ^ Thomas Curson The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to ..., Volume 15
  2. ^ William Henry Pulsifer Notes for a history of lead
  3. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". royal Society. http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27creed%27%29. Retrieved 24 December 2010. 
  4. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2)
  5. ^ Greenwich, The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 426-493. Date accessed: 21 November 2010
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Matthew Robinson-Morris
Thomas Best		 Member of Parliament for Canterbury
1754-1761
With: Matthew Robinson-Morris		 Succeeded by
Richard Milles
Thomas Best