James Creed
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 with his wife Dame Mary Creed at St Alfege Church, Greenwich where there is a marble monument to his memory against the outer north wall.[5]
References[]
- ^ Thomas Curson The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to ..., Volume 15
- ^ William Henry Pulsifer Notes for a history of lead
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". royal Society. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2)
- ^ Greenwich, The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 426-493. Date accessed: 21 November 2010
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