John Creed (naval administrator)

John Creed FRS (died 1701) was a British naval administrator. His date of birth is unknown and little is known about his career prior to the Restoration.

He served as secretary to Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich who was also patron of the famous diarist Samuel Pepys. There are negative comments about Creed in Pepys' Diary, but the two men had interests in common apart from work. Creed became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663, and this may have been a factor in Pepys' interest in the Society and his own election to a Fellowship in 1665.

In 1668 Creed married Elizabeth Pickering, who was related to Pepys and to the Earl of Sandwich. Pepys attended the marriage which took place at Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire. The couple had eleven children.

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