Acting Chaplain, The Reverend Algernon Henry George CREED RN
HMS Orvieto, Royal Navy

Date of birth: 7th June 1864
Date of death: 21st May 1917

Died aged 52
Buried at St Mary's Church, Ewshott
Algernon Henry George Creed was born at Monewden in Suffolk on the 7th of June 1864 the son of the Reverend Henry Keyworth Creed, Rector of Chedburgh, and Elizabeth Georgina (nee Mills) Creed of Chedburgh Rectory, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He was christened at Monewden on the 10th of July 1864.

He was educated at Yarmouth Grammar School from 1873 to 1877 and at Bedford College from 1878 to 1883. He went on to Christ’s College Cambridge from the 6th of October 1884 where he achieved a BA in 1887 and a MA in 1891. He was an assistant master at Bolton Grammar School from 1888 to 1889.

In 1889 he was ordained as a Deacon and in 1890 he was Priest in Chichester. In 1891 he was Curate at Ashington in Sussex and was Assistant Chaplain at Old Shoreham in Sussex from 1893 to 1894.

He was Chaplain and an assistant master at Hazelwood School from 1894 until 1896 when he accepted as post at Trinity College, Glenalmond.

The school magazine published the following appreciation of him in August 1896: -

"The Rev. A.H.G. Creed received a sudden offer of the Chaplaincy of Glenalmond College, during the holidays, and only returned last term to say goodbye. His loss was severely felt, not only by the little congregation of the School Chapel, but by the numerous friends he has made in the neighbourhood, notably by his unfailing readiness to help everyone who wanted the occasional assistance of a Clergyman, and he has left behind him a lasting reputation for unselfish and thoughtful kindness and imperturbable good nature. We have received many interesting letters from him, the last of which we wish we had space to publish in full. It gives a glowing picture of the beauties of Glenalmond and its surroundings, and, in particular, of an institution that makes our mouths water. It seems that every Saturday is a whole holiday - after 10.30 - to all who have done their work properly during the week, with unlimited licence to spend it according to the choice of every master and boy. "Happy boys who have got their dockets (clean bill of work, we suppose) departing in all direction: some on bikes; some to fish in the clean waters of the Almond; some to bathe, and picnic in secluded retreats," while the masters have the use of the Warden's Carriage to take them to some *snug glen" where "amidst the heather and pure air of Hieland hills, they may forget that they are such things as boys in the world!" However, Hazelwood boys will forgive him for this last remark when we quote further, that "if only there were some Hazelwood boys there his cup of joy would indeed be full." We must not omit to mention that Mr. Creed has joined the College Rifle Corps, and is getting used to his kilt; "If I were Scotch," he says, "I think I should always wear the National costume - there is a freedom about the lower part of it that is attractive." Much more that is interesting we must perforce omit, and will leave him for the present in his new Highland home."

He left Glenalmond in 1900 and, in 1901, he went to South Africa where he served as one of the Chaplains to the forces during the war, suffering while he was there from a bout of enteric fever, and returned home in 1902. He was awarded the Queen's Medal with five clasps.

He was a priest in the Diocese of St Andrews from 1902 to 1903 and was a priest at the Diocese of Winchester from 1903. He was Head Master of Church Hill Preparatory School, Crondall, Hampshire from 1903 to 1910. On the 7th of October 1910 he was appointed as the parish priest at St Mary's Church, Ewshott near Farnham in Hampshire.

He was appointed as an Acting Chaplain in the Royal Navy on the 6th of October 1915 and served on the HM Hospital Ship Soudan in the Dardanelles. He had just been appointed to the armed merchant cruiser HMS Orvieto when he died very suddenly of a blood clot on the brain on the 21st of May 1917 at The Vicarage, Ewshott while home on leave.

A stained glass window was dedicated to his memory in 1917 at St Mary's Church, Ewshott.
 

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