Thomas Percival Creed
lawyer and educationist
Sir Thomas Percival Creed, KBE, MC, QC (29 January 1897 – 11 May 1969) was a lawyer and educationist.
Principal of Queen Mary College London from 1952 to 1967, he served as vice-chancellor of the University of London from 1964 to 1967.
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.
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.
In 1919 he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, graduating as BA in 1922.
Career
After Oxford Creed 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.
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