CREIGHTON, ROBERT, son of Robert Creighton (elected to Camb. 1613, qv); b. adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1655, adm. pens. 23 May 1655, scholar 1655, matr. Easter 1656; 10th in “ordo” 1658/9; BA 1658/9; MA 1662; DD 1678; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1659 - c. 1668, Tutor 1665; Regius Professor of Greek 1666-72; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; Reptor of Uplowman, Devon, 1670; Rector of Ashbrittle, Somerset, from 22 Oct 1670; Prebendary of Wells from 23 Aug 1662, also Precentor and Canon Residentiary from 2 May 1674; in a letter to Richard Busby (qv), dated 15 Dec 1688, preserved among the muniments of the Busby Trustees, Creighton thus acknowledges his obligations to his old master : “I have been your debtor from my childhood, to you I owe my education, and my child’s, my fortune, my Fellowship in Cambridge, my lecture there, my travails, my station in this church, this dividend, myselfe, all, except my infirmities” (Elizabethan xi, 140); composed several services and anthems, one of which, “I will arise” is still a favourite with lovers of church music; m.; d. 17 Feb 1733/4, aged 97. DNB.
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Houses
- NT Armfeild's
- NT Ashburnham
- NT Ashby's
- NT Atwood's
- NT Bainbrigg's
- NT Benthall's
- NT Best's
- NT Bourne's
- NT Burges'
- NT Busby's
- NT Butler's
- NT Chelsum's
- NT Clapham's
- NT Clarke's
- NT College
- NT Dale's
- NT Dean's
- NT Desaguliers'
- NT Douglas'
- NT Dryden's
- NT Du Brieux's
- NT Durand's
- NT Edwards'
- NT Finch's
- NT Fox's
- NT Geary's
- NT Gibson's
- NT Grant's
- NT Greet's
- NT Guthry's
- NT Guyneham's
- NT Hakluyt's
- NT Hart's
- NT Hawkins'
- NT Heath's
- NT Hodgson's
- NT Homeboarders'
- NT Howe's
- NT Hume's
- NT Hutton's
- NT Jackson's
- NT James'
- NT Jones'
- NT Langton's
- NT Levett's
- NT Liddell's
- NT Lloyd's
- NT Ludford's
- NT Macklin's
- NT Majendie's
- NT Maskelyne's
- NT Mellisham's
- NT Milne's
- NT Morel's
- NT Morrison's
- NT Ottey's
- NT Packharness'
- NT Peirson's
- NT Philips'
- NT Playford's
- NT Porten's
- NT Powell's
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- NT Preston's
- NT Price's
- NT Purcell's
- NT Rigaud's
- NT Russel's
- NT Scott's
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- NT Smalwell's
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- NT Stelfox's
- NT Stephens'
- NT Stikeman's
- NT Taylor's
- NT Watts'
- NT Williams'
- NT Woodcock's
- NT Wren's
- NT Wynniate's