Thomas Percival Creed

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Sir Thomas Percival Creed,

educationist.[1]

Principal of

Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1964 to 1967.[1]

Early life and education

The son of Rev. Colin Creed, curate of St Peter's Church, Braunstone, Leicester, later Rector of Farthinghoe, South Northamptonshire and Etheldreda Wright Spackman, daughter of a medical practitioner, from 1908 to 1915 he attended Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester.[1]

War service and university

Commissioned into the Artists Rifles in 1915, he served during World War I in France, where he was wounded twice being awarded the MC in 1917.[1]

In 1919 he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, graduating as BA in 1922.[1]

Career

After

took silk, before pursuing a career in education.[1]

Creed became Secretary of

Queen Mary College in 1952. From 1964 to 1967 he served as Vice-Chancellor of London University. His time there was a period of expansion but he managed to ensure the continued federal structure of the university.[1]

Personal life

In 1928 Creed married (Agnes) Margaret Brewis of St Helens (then Lancashire). They had one son and two daughters.

Sir Thomas died at his home in Allen Street, Kensington, London W8.[1]

See also

  • List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
  • List of British university chancellors and vice-chancellors

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h KDD Henderson: Creed, Sir Thomas Percival (1897–1969), rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013 accessed 27 Feb 2013
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