Thomas Percival Creed

Sir Thomas Percival Creed KBE MC KC (29 January 1897 – 11 May 1969) was a lawyer and educationist.[1] He was Principal of Queen Mary College, University of London, from 1952 to 1967 and Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1964 to 1967.[1]

Early life and education

He was born in Leicester, son of Rev Colin Creed, curate of St Peter's Church, Braunstone, Leicester and later rector at Farthinghoe, South Northamptonshire. His mother was Etheldreda Wright Spackman daughter of a medical practitioner.

From 1908 to 1915 he studied at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester.[1]

War service and university

In 1915 during World War I he joined the Artists Rifles, serving in France where he was wounded twice and won the MC in 1917.[1]

In 1919 he attended Pembroke College, Oxford obtaining a BA in 1922.[1]

Career

After Oxford he joined the Sudan political service, where he read for the bar. In 1926 he became a district judge and in 1928 was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. In 1931 he was seconded to the Iraqi and became a judge in Baghdad and held other positions in Kirkuk and Mosul. In 1935 he returned to Sudan as a high court judge in Khartoum, Chief Justice of Sudan (1935–1941) and Legal Secretary from 1941 to 1948. He was awarded the Order of the Nile in 1939, CBE in 1943 and KBE in 1946. In 1948 he retired form Sudan and took silk, but decide to continue with a career in education.[1]

He became secretary of King's College London in 1948 and principal of Queen Mary College in 1952. From 1964 to 1967 he was 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 he married (Agnes) Margaret Brewis of St Helens, Merseyside, (then in Lancashire). They had one son and two daughters.

He died at his home in Allen Street, Kensington, west London.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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
Academic offices
Preceded by
Peter Scott Noble		 Vice-Chancellor of the
University of London
1964–1967 		Succeeded by
Sir Owen Saunders FRS
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