Educated at St George's Hospital. He was Surgeon to the West Suffolk Militia in 1824 and at one time Surgeon to the Suffolk General Hospital. He died at Bury St Edmunds, where he had practised, in 1868. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** George Creed was a general surgeon in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He was born in Bury St Edmunds, the son of John Stephens Creed, a surgeon, and Emilia Creed née Herring on 18 December 1798. Creed’s twin brother Henry went on to become the rector of Mellis in Suffolk. He attended King Edward VI Free Grammar School in Bury, left before 1817 and became apprenticed to his father. He later studied at St George’s Hospital in London. He gained his MRCS in 1821 and the licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1822. He went on to become a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1844. He was a surgeon at Suffolk General Hospital in Bury St Edmunds from 1825 to 1847 and a surgeon in the West Suffolk Militia for 44 years. In 1828 he used the skin of the notorious murderer William Corder to bind an account of his trial. The book includes an inscription: ‘The binding of this book is the skin of the murderer William Corder taken from his body and tanned by myself in the year 1828. George Creed Surgeon to the Suffolk Hospital.’ Creed was also a farmer, first at Boarhunt Farm, Fareham, Hampshire, where he farmed 472 acres and employed 24 labourers, and later at Hall Farm, Great Whelnetham, Suffolk. He was a magistrate, a trustee of the Guildhall Feoffment, which provided almshouses, and a free burgess of Bury St Edmunds. He was mayor of Bury St Edmunds in 1839. He was married to Louisa (née Powell). They had no children. He died at his home in Albert Street, Bury St Edmunds, on 28 November 1868 just before his 70th birthday. Sarah Gillam