Background
Thomas Creevey was the son of William Creevey, a Liverpool merchant, was born in that city in March 1768.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Thomas Creevey was the son of William Creevey, a Liverpool merchant, was born in that city in March 1768.
Thomas Creevey went to Queen's College, Cambridge, and graduated as seventh wrangler in 1789.
The same year he became a student at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in 1794.
In 1802 Thomas Creevey entered parliament through the duke of Norfolk's nomination as member for Thetford, and married a widow with six children, Mrs Ord, who had a life interest in a cgmfortable income. Creevey was a Whig and a follower of Fox, and his active intellect and social qualities procured him a considerable intimacy with the leaders of this political circle. In 1806, when the brief " All the Talents " ministry was formed, he was given the office of secretary to the Board of Control; in 1830, when next his party came into power, Creevey, who had lost his seat in parliament, was appointed by Lord Grey treasurer of the ordnance; and subsequently Lord Melbourne made him treasurer of Greenwich hospital. After 1818, when his wife died, he had very slender means of his own, but he was popular with his friends and was well looked after by them; Greville, writing of him in 1829, remarks that " old Creevey is a living proof that a man may be perfectly happy and exceedingly poor. I think he is the only man I know in society who possesses nothing. " He died in February 1838.
Creevey was a Whig and a follower of Charles James Fox, and his active intellect and social qualities procured him a considerable intimacy with the leaders of this political circle. In 1806, when the brief "All the Talents" ministry was formed, he was given the office of secretary to the Board of Control. In 1830, when next his party came into power, Creevey, who had lost his seat in parliament, was appointed by Lord Grey Treasurer of the Ordnance.
And subsequently Lord Melbourne made him treasurer of Greenwich Hospital.
They are a useful addition and correction to the Croker Papers, written from a Tory point of view.