# John Martin Creed

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'''John Martin Creed''', [FBA](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (14 October 1889 – 17 February 1940) was an English theologian and clergyman. The son of a vicar, he was educated at [Wyggeston Grammar School](/source/Wyggeston_Grammar_School_for_Boys) in [Leicester](/source/Leicester) and [Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge](/source/Gonville_and_Caius_College%2C_Cambridge) (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](/source/Chaplain_to_the_forces) (1917–19), he was a fellow of [St John's College, Cambridge](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Cambridge), from 1919 until he died. He was also [Ely Professor of Divinity](/source/Ely_Professor_of_Divinity) from 1926 until his death. He gave the [Hulsean Lectures](/source/Hulsean_Lectures) in 1936, and in 1939 he was elected a [Fellow of the British Academy](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy).<ref>J. S. B. Smith, revised by Gerald Law, [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32624 "Creed, John Martin"], ''[The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)'' (online ed., [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2009). Retrieved 20 February 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-208064 "Creed, Rev. John Martin"], ''[Who Was Who](/source/Who's_Who_(UK))'' (online ed., [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2007). Retrieved 20 February 2021.</ref>

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* J. S. Boys Smith, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23956719 "Obituary: John Martin Creed"], ''[The Journal of Theological Studies](/source/The_Journal_of_Theological_Studies)'', vol. 41, no. 162 (1940), pp.&nbsp;113–118.
* [J. F. Bethune-Baker](/source/James_Bethune-Baker), "John Martin Creed, 1889–1940", ''[Proceedings of the British Academy](/source/Proceedings_of_the_British_Academy)'', vol. 26 (1940), pp.&nbsp;517–530.

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