John Martin Creed

John Martin Creed, Fellow of the [British Academy|FBA] was an English theologian and clergyman. The son of a vicar, he was educated at Wyggeston [Grammar School for Boys|Wyggeston Grammar School] in Leicester and Gonville and [Caius College, Cambridge]. 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, he was a fellow of St John's [College, Cambridge], from 1919 until he died. He was also Ely Professor of Divinity from 1926 until his death. He gave the Hulsean Lectures in 1936, and in 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.