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Thomas Creech (1659 - July 1700)

Donor of a "silver Spanish medal, encrusted with pseudo-coral" and identified in the "Book of Benefactors" as "Bachelor of Theology and Fellow of All Souls" (MacGregor, 9-10). This is almost certainly the Thomas Creech famous for his translation of Lucretius and for his notorious suicide. He earned his Bachelor degree in Divinity on 18 March 1696. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/6661 Relevant locations: Member of All Souls College , Oxford University
 Relationships: Thomas Creech was a same person as? (uncertain) Mr. Creech (-fl. c. 1692)
Thomas Creech was a member of Oxford Philosophical Society (1649-1660)

 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 (Part I).
 References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

Thomas Creech, Bachelor of Theology and Fellow of All Souls, gave a silver Spanish medal, encrusted with pseudo-coral, found in the treasure of a Spanish ship sunk on the high seas in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and fished up from it by Englishmen in 1687. See the Vice-Chancellor's Catalogue, no. 956.

Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) 956 Numisma Hispanicum Argenteum, Pseudocorallio quodam adnato coopertum; ex thesauro isto quem é navi Hispanicâ, regnante Elizabethâ alto oceano submersâ, expiscati sunt Angli. Ao. 1687. Ex dono D. Th. Creech. D Spanish silver coin, covered completely with pseudo-coral; found in the treasure of a Spanish ship sunk on the high seas during the reign of Elizabeth, and fished up from it again by the English in 1687. The gift of Mr Thomas Creech.