John Martin Creed,
FBA (14 October 1889 – 17 February 1940) was an English theologian and clergyman. The son of a vicar, he was educated at
Wyggeston Grammar School in
Leicester
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and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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(graduating in 1912). He was ordained a priest and elected a fellow at Gonville and Caius in 1914, where he was chaplain from 1915 to 1917. After being a
Chaplain to the Forces
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History
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(1917–19), he was a fellow of
St John's College, Cambridge
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, from 1919 until he died. He was also
Ely Professor of Divinity
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from 1926 until his death. He gave the
Hulsean Lectures
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in 1936, and in 1939 he was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy
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.
"Creed, Rev. John Martin"
''Who Was Who
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'' (online ed., Oxford University Press
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, 2007). Retrieved 20 February 2021.
References
Further reading
* J. S. Boys Smith
"Obituary: John Martin Creed"
''The Journal of Theological Studies
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'', vol. 41, no. 162 (1940), pp. 113–118.
* J. F. Bethune-Baker, "John Martin Creed, 1889–1940", ''Proceedings of the British Academy
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'', vol. 26 (1940), pp. 517–530.
1889 births
1940 deaths
English theologians
20th-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
Ely Professors of Divinity
Fellows of the British Academy
People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys
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