Thomas Creevey MP (1768 - 1838)                Wife - Elizabeth Ord 

Thomas Creevey was born in Liverpool the son of  William Creevey, a merchant and sometime sea captain who was a native of Northern Ireland. There has been a suggestion that Thomas was actually the illegitimate son of Charles William, 1st Earl of Sefton and that before the birth, William was induced to marry his mother but that has not been substantiated. His grandfather was an army officer, presumably in Ireland.

Thomas was sent to London to be educated at Newcombe's school Hackney and subsequently went to Queen's College, Cambridge where he graduated as a B.A. in 1789. He then studied law, obtained an M.A. at Cambridge in 1792 and was called to the bar in 1794 at Gray's Inn.

He became Member of Parliament for the borough of Thetford in Norfolk for some while and subsequently Appleby and then Downton in Wiltshire (each 'pocket boroughs'). He became a minor Minister in the government of the day, was an irregular attendant at the court of the Prince of Wales and was an associate of the Duke of Wellington. He lived in Belgium at the time of the Battle of Waterloo.

In 1802 he married Elizabeth Ord but they did not have any children.  He had a number of 'poor' relatives (described as 'a tribe of cousins in humble circumstances') and a sister Jane who spent her life in Liverpool and died unmarried. He ended his days as a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital and is buried in the cemetery in the grounds of the Royal Hospital School at Greenwich, London.

He was an avid letter writer and his letters were published in two volumes in the early 1900s, "The Creevey Papers" and "Creevey's Life and Times". Both are still stocked by larger libraries in the UK. They are of some historical significance to scholars as they shed light on the scene at the time of his involvement in politics. Whilst both books always give his surname as Creevey, his death was registered as Creevy.