Charles Vandeleur Creagh

Creagh 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.{{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}}

He posted as the Assistant Resident of Perak, Governor of North Borneo (1888–1895) and Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Labuan (1891–1895).{{cite magazine |title=CREAGH, Charles Vandeleur|magazine= Who's who biographies, 1905|page=369|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iEVLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA369|last1= Addison|first1= Henry Robert|last2= Oakes|first2= Charles Henry|last3= Lawson|first3= William John|last4= Sladen|first4= Douglas Brooke Wheelton|year= 1905}}

Charles 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).Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour (Volume 1), (Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, T.C. & E.C. Jack, Edinburgh .) 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.laugharnewarmemorial.co.uk/page14.htm|title=Laugharnewarmemorial.co.uk}} They also had a daughter Dorothy Creagh.

He donated his collection of Bornean plants to Kew Gardens.

He 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.

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• Victor Plarr, Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, 1899
• Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, 1918
• Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists: Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers, 1977
• [http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/specimens?id=260810 Bauhinia Creaghi Baker]

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