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CREMER, HENRY, son of Acton Cremer (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1693; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1698, matr. 4 Jul 1698, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1698 - void 1720, expiry year of grace from 30 Jul 1719; BA 1702; MA 22 Mar 1704/5; ordained; Perpetual Curate of Bensington, Oxfordshire 25 Mar 1714-20; Prebendary of St. David’s from 11 Dec 1716; Vicar of Llandilofawr [check], Carmarthenshire, from 1719; d. 12 Apr 1723.

Cremer, Richard John, son of Herbert William Cremer CBE, dir. Chemical Engineering Studies, KCL, and Dorothy, d. of John Garment Nunns of Faversham, Kent; b. 4 Jan. 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (R); left July 1942; King’s Coll. Hosp. Med. Sch., MB BS 1950; gen. med. practitioner, Bromley, Kent; m. Mary Patricia Hegarty MB BCh DA, gen. med. practitioner; d. 25 Jan. 2014.

CREMER, THOMAS, son of Robert Cremer, Norfolk; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1650; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1653, adm. pens. 6 Jul 1653, scholar 1654, matr. Easter 1656; BA 1657/8; MA 1661; Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1659 - c. 1664; ordained; Vicar of Barrington, Cambs., 1661; Rector of Grimston, Norfolk, from 9 Feb 1663/4; m.; d. 1691.

CRESPION, STEPHEN, son of Germain Crespion, St. Giles in the Fields, London, and Cornelia, eldest dau. of Stephen Nash; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1663; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1666, matr. 13 Jul 1666, aged 17, Westminster Student 17 Jan 1667-73, void; BA 1670; MA 22 Mar 1672/3; when still an undergraduate sang before Cosimo de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, on his visit to Oxford in May 1669 (Wood, Life and Times, ii, 158); a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal 13 May 1673; ordained; Confessor to the Royal Household 1 Nov 1675 (still 1691); Sacrist and Chaunter, Westminster Abbey, from 25 Jul 1683; Prebendary of Bristol from 3 Aug 1683; m. 1st, by 1674 Margaret ---; m. 2nd, by 1693 Mary Orris; d. 25 Nov 1711. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

CRESSET, ---; b.; adm. 1656 (School List 1656, second quarter); left 1656.

CRESSWELL, FREDERICK; b. 29 Sep 1803; adm. 1 Jul 1816 (Du Brieux's). [evidently Frederick Cresswell, son of Ralph Cresswell, and Mary ---, b. 29 Sep 1802, bapt. St. George the Martyr, Southwark, Surrey, 8 Dec 1802] [evidently Frederick Cresswell, solicitor, aged 38, Botus Fleming, Cornwall, living there with wife Mary, and children, 1841 Census]

CRESSWELL, HENRY WHITFIELD, son of Richard Cheslyn Cresswell, Joint Deputy Registrar Prerogative Court of Canterbury and a proctor, Court of Arches, and Mary Whitfield (IGI); b.; in school list 1803; left 1810; adm. proctor, Court of Arches 1819; practised in Godliman Street, Doctors’ Commons, London; d. 17 Feb 1828.

CRESWELL, ---; b.; in school list 1797.

Creswell, Keppel Archibald Cameron, only son of Keppel Creswell, of Regent's Park, a member of Lloyds, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas Henderson, of Rugby, solicitor; b. Sept. 13, 1879; adm. May 8, 1891 (H); left July 1896; City and Guilds Technical Coll. Finsbury, Mitchell scholar 1897; served in Great War I; Staff Capt. R.A.F. Middle East Jan. 1918; thrice mentioned in despatches; M.B.E. Jan. 1, 1919; Inspector of Monuments, Syria and Palestine, Eastern Area, enemy territory Aug. 4, 1919 May 1920; Hon. A. R. I. B.A.; Professor of Muslim Art and Archaeology, Egyptian University, Cairo, 1931-51; Professor of Muslim Architecture, American Univ., Cairo, 1956; F. S. A. 1927; F. B.A. 1947; Hon. D. Litt. Oxon. 1946 and Princeton 1947; Rockefeller Foundation Fellow 1952-4; C.B.E. June 1955; Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal of the Royal Central Asian Society; Triennial Gold Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society; author of A Brief Chronology of the Mohammadan Monuments of Egypt (1919), Early Muslim Architecture (1932), The Muslim Architecture of Egypt (1952-9), A Bibliograph of the Architecture, Arts and Crafts ef Islam (1961), and other works.