Police Officer, barrister, magistrate, colonial administrator. Born (10/4/1842). Attended the Royal Naval School, New Cross, South London and Eastman's Royal Naval Academy, Southsea, Portsmouth. Admitted to the Middle Temple (11/17/1880); called to the bar (5/11/1892). Assistant District Superintendent of Sind Police, India[1] (1860). Hong Kong (1866-1883). Assistant Resident of Perak (3//1883). Governor of North Borneo[2] (3//1888-1895). Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Labuan (1891-1895). CMG (1892). Died (9/18/1917, London). Addresses: Charlton Road, Blackheath, London (1917).
HONG KONG. Acting Police Magistrate.
Arrived Hong Kong from Sind, India (12//1866). Deputy Superintendent of Police (1/1/1867-3//1883). Justice of the Peace (8/24/1867). Assistant Superintendent of Fire Brigade (12/1/1868). Acting Captain Superintendent of Police (1870, 1877, several occurrences). Acting Sheriff of Hong Kong (5/6/1874). Acting Police Magistrate (1876-1880, several occurrences). Left Hong Kong (3//1883). Hong Kong Government pension (3/27/1896-1917).
Arrived Hong Kong from Sind, India (12//1866). Deputy Superintendent of Police (1/1/1867-3//1883). Justice of the Peace (8/24/1867). Assistant Superintendent of Fire Brigade (12/1/1868). Acting Captain Superintendent of Police (1870, 1877, several occurrences). Acting Sheriff of Hong Kong (5/6/1874). Acting Police Magistrate (1876-1880, several occurrences). Left Hong Kong (3//1883). Hong Kong Government pension (3/27/1896-1917).
Second s/o James Creagh (d.1857), of Cahirbane, Clare, Ireland, Capt. RN, and Grace Emily O'Moore, d/o Garrett O'Moore, The O'Moore of the Cloghan Castle, County Offaly, Ireland.
m (6//1882). Blanche Frances Edwardes (b.1858-d.1948), d/o Frederick Augustus Edwardes of Rhyd-y-gors, Southwest Wales, Capt. 30th Regiment. F/o James Vandeleur Creagh (b.1883-d.1956), RADM, RN; O'Moore Charles Creagh (b.1896–d.1918), 2Lt. Royal Field Artillery; and Dorothy Creagh.
- Creagh was a noted botanist, who gave his collection of Bornean plants to Kew. The Bauhinia Creaghi Baker, a Caesalpiniaceae family plant species, was named after him. The Creagh Road (present day Jalan Muzaffar Shah) in Taiping, northern Perak, Malaysia was named in his honor.
[1] Creagh brought the first Sikh policemen, 100 in number, to Hong Kong from India in June 1867.
[2] The territory of British North Borneo, acquired from the Sultans of Brunei and Sulu in 1879, came under the ownership of the British North Boorneo Company incorporated by Royal Charter on November 1, 1881. In May, 1888, a British Protectorate was established. [If I am not mistaken], the British administrators responsible for the territory prior to May 1888 were referred to as the Presidents of the BNB Co. As such, Creagh was the first governor of North Borneo.
Selected bibliography: Civil Establishment of Hong Kong for the Year 1872. Cohen, Robin, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, Cambridge University Press, 1995, p70. Connectedhistories [online]. Desmond, Ray, Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers, CRC Press, 1994, p.177. Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Sian, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c for 1912, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Daily Press, 1912, p.1504. Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 8, 1867, #87; June 15, 1867, Erratum; August 24, 1867, #128; January 2, 1869, #140; May 9, 1874, #77; April 7, 1877, #79. Hong Kong Government Pensions, Payable out of the Revenue of the Colony, 1914. http://archive.middletemple.org.uk [online]. prabook [online]. The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, November 15, 1917, p.310, Mr. C.V. Creag, CMG. Wright, Leigh R., The Origins of British Borneo, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1988, p.181.
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