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CREIGHTON, ROBERT, son of Robert Creighton (elected to Camb. 1655, qv); b.; adm. Apr 1686; in a letter dated 14 Apr 1686 his father, while commending his son to Busby’s care, writes “the school I send him to will make him happy, or nothing will”; KS (aged 13) 1687; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1692, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1692, scholar 28 Apr 1693, matr. 1693; 9th in “ordo” 1695/6; BA 1695/6; MA 1699; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1698, Major Fellow 28 Apr 1699 -c. 1702; ordained priest (Winchester) 20 Sep 1702; Vicar of Combe St. Nicholas, Somerset, 17 Mar 1703-25; Master of the Grammar School and Keeper of the Cathedral Library, Wells, 2 Apr 1712; Prebendary of Wells from 26 Apr 1718; Vicar of Odcombe, Somerset, from 15 Mar 1725; Vicar of Burnham, Somerset, from 18 Dec 1727; Vicar of Yatton, Somerset, from 9 Jun 1729; buried Wells Cathedral 22 Dec 1732.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.