The John Chidzey Collection

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Rev. A. H. Creed, C. to F.) nearly extremely fine £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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Algernon Henry George Creed was born in Monewden, Suffolk c.1865. He graduated with a B.A. from Christ College, Cambridge in 1887 and gained an M.A. in 1891. He was ordained a Deacon in 1889 and Priest at Chichester in 1890. He was appointed the Curate of Ashington, Sussex, 1889-91 and was a Licensed Preacher for the Diocese of London, 1891-93. He was then Curate of Old Shoreham, 1893-94; Chaplain of Hazlewood School, Surrey, 1894-96; and Chaplain of Trinity College Glenalmond, 1896-1901. During 1901-02 he served in South Africa as Acting Chaplain to the Forces. After the war he was appointed Licensed Preacher for the Diocese of St. Andrews, 1902-03, of Winchester, 1903-10, and Oxford, 1906-10. Creed was appointed to his first Parish in 1910 when he became Vicar of Ewshot in the Diocese of Winchester. In 1917 he became a Chaplain to the Navy. Serving aboard the armed merchant cruiser H.M.S. Orvieto, he died on 21 May 1917, aged 52 years. He was buried in Ewshott (St. Mary) Churchyard.

With modern photographs of his headstone, Ewshott War Memorial, church plaque and vicarage; with copied research.