| 词条 | Charles Vandeleur Creagh |
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Charles Vandeleur Creagh {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG}} (4 October 1842 – 18 September 1917) was Governor of North Borneo from 1888 to 1895. CareerCreagh was educated at the Royal Naval School, New Cross and Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy at Southsea. He was a barrister at the Middle Temple. Creagh spent many years in government service in Hong Kong and is recorded as Acting Captain Superintendent of Police in 1867.[1] He posted as the Assistant Resident of Perak, Governor of North Borneo (1888–1895) and Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Labuan (1891–1895).[2] Personal lifeCharles Vandeleur Creagh was the second son of Captain John Creagh, RN of Cahirbane Co. Clare, Ireland. His younger brother became General O'Moore Creagh VC GCB GCSI (1848–1923). Creagh married Blanche Frances Edwardes (1858–1948), daughter of Captain Frederick Augustus Edwardes (1829–1878) of Rhyd-y-gors in June 1882. Their elder son became Rear-Admiral James Vandeleur Creagh DSO (1883–1956).[3] Their younger son went on to become Second Lieutenant O'Moore Charles Creagh (1896–1918) of the Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action during the German Spring Offensive at Feuillaucourt, near Mont Saint-Quentin, on 23 March 1918, aged 21.[4] They also had a daughter Dorothy Creagh. ContributionsHe donated his collection of Bornean plants to Kew Gardens. Honours and legacyHe was made a CMG in 1890. The Bauhinia Creaghi Baker, a Caesalpiniaceae family plant species, was named after him as was the Creagh Road in Taiping. Sources
References1. ^{{cite book|title=Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health|last=Pekham|first=Robert|publisher=Routledge|date=4 December 2013|isbn=9781135045951}} {{s-start}}{{s-gov}}{{succession box | title=Governor of North Borneo| before=William Maunder Crocker | after=Leicester Paul Beaufort | years=1888–1895 }}{{s-end}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Creagh, Charles Vandeleur}}2. ^{{cite magazine |title=CREAGH, Charles Vandeleur|magazine= Who's who biographies, 1905|page=369|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEVLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA369}} 3. ^Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Volume 1), (Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, T.C. & E.C. Jack, Edinburgh .) 4. ^http://www.laugharnewarmemorial.co.uk/page14.htm 6 : 1842 births|1917 deaths|Administrators in British Malaya|Administrators in British Borneo|Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George|People educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy |
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