William Creech

Not to be confused with William Creech, Sr..

William Creech (12 May 1745 – 14 January 1815^[1]) was a Scottish bookseller.

For 40 years Creech was the chief publisher in Edinburgh. He published the first Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' poems.

In 1788 he was a member of the jury in Deacon William Brodie's trial for robbery. Within days, his account of the trial and execution was for sale in his High Street bookshop. He served as Edinburgh's Lord Provost from 1811 to 1813.

He is buried at Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh. A plaque to his, and his father's, memory can be seen at Newbattle Kirk.

Notes

^ ODNB; Annual Register, 1815. Joel Munsell (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & co. gives the death date as 1 January 1815.

References

Barbara M. Benedict, ‘Creech, William (1745–1815)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 July 2008

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

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Name	Creech, William
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Short description	British politician
Date of birth	12 May 1745
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Date of death	14 January 1815
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