**Frederick George Creed was a Canadian-born inventor, who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He worked in the field of telecommunications, and is particularly remembered as a key figure in the development of the teleprinter. Frederick Creed also played an early role in the development of SWATH vessels [A 'Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull' (SWATH) is a twin-hull ship design that minimizes hull cross section area at the sea's surface; by minimizing a ship's volume near the surface area of the sea, where wave energy is located, a vessel's stability is maximized, even in high seas and at high speeds. ] **

--Creed's home at 20 Outram Road in Addiscombe, East Croydon, is marked with a commemorative English Heritage blue plaque.
--The Canadian Coast Guard Ship 'Frederick G. Creed' which is a SWATH vessel, is named in his honour.

Nova Scotia BIRTH record-
Frederick G. W. Creed was born on 6 Oct 1871 in Mill Village, Queens County; birth record can be found in Registration Year: 1871 - Book: 1819 - Page: 85 - Number: 291.
*Son of Mill Village merchant John Richard and Mary Julia (née Mack) Creed [his parents married on 6 Feb 1867 in Mill Village; father was born In Halifax, son of Samuel and Sophia Creed; Mary Julia was daughter of Jason and Augusta Mack]; brother of Sophia, Edward Mack, Frank Owen and John Nayler.

Nova Scotia marriage-
--Jane Russell and Frederick G. Creed married 1896 in Halifax County; marriage can be found in Registration Year: 1896 - Book: 1819 - Page: 105 - Number: 416.
*Creed's first wife was the Scottish-born Jane ('Jennie') Russell (1868/9–1945), whom he met in Chile and married in 1896. She died in 1945, having borne 4 children, all born in Scotland: Gavin Livingstone Creed, Jane Creed, Frederica Georgina Creed, and Evangeline Creed. His son, Gavin L. Creed, was a minor poet: during the Second World War, while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Gavin Creed published "For Freedom" (1942).*

--In 1947, aged 75, he married as his second wife Valerie Leopoldine Gisella Layton, née Franzky (1906–1994).

DEATH-1957 Dec Quarter death "registration"-
Name: CREED, Frederick G---Age: 86
District: Croydon [Volume & Page: 5g & 99]

*At the age of 15 Creed began his working life as a check boy for Western Union in Canso, Guysborugh Co., Nova Scotia where he taught himself cable and landline telegraphy. He then worked for the Central and South American Telegraph and Cable Company in Peru and Chile. At the company's office in Iquique, Chile, tired of using hand-operated Morse keys and Wheatstone tape punches, Creed thought of using a typewriter-style machine instead--the operator could punch Morse code signals onto paper tape simply by pressing the appropriate character key.
*Creed moved to Glasgow, Scotland and began working/inventing in an old shed; he used an old typewriter bought from the Sauchiehall Street market to build his first keyboard perforator, which used compressed air to punch the holes. He also created a reperforator (receiving perforator) and a printer. The reperforator punched incoming Morse signals onto paper tape and the printer decoded this tape to produce alphanumeric characters on plain paper. This was the origin of the 'Creed High Speed Automatic Printing System'. He managed to secure an order for 12 machines from the British General Post Office in 1902. He opened a small factory in Glasgow in 1904 and two years later the Glasgow Herald adopted the Creed system, claiming that it was three times faster than the rival Morse apparatus.
*In 1909 Creed and 6 of his mechanics moved to Croydon to be closer to the Post Office headquarters in London. Working with Danish telegraph engineer Harald Bille, he established Creed, Bille & Company Ltd. in 1912; it later became simply Creed & Company.
*Creed's system received a major boost that same year when the Daily Mail newspaper adopted it for daily transmission of the entire contents of its newspaper from London to Manchester.
*In 1913, the first experiments were made in high-speed telegraphy by radio transmission between the Croydon factory and Creed's home about 3.1 miles away. However, the outbreak of the First World War diverted the company's activities to military equipment.
*In 1915, the company moved to larger accommodations at East Croydon and concentrated on producing high-quality instruments for military use; some of the items produced were amplifiers, spark-gap transmitters, aircraft compasses, high-voltage generators, bomb release apparatus, and fuzes for artillery shells and bombs.
*Following the War, in 1920 the Press Association set up a private news network using several hundred Creed teleprinters to serve practically every daily morning newspaper in the UK. Other companies followed suit in Australia, Denmark, India, South Africa, and Sweden.
*In 1924 Creed entered the teleprinter field with their Model 1P, which was soon superseded by the improved Model 2P. In 1925 he acquired the patents for Donald Murray's Murray code, a rationalised Baudot code, and it was used for their new Model 3 Tape Teleprinter of 1927: it was able to print received messages directly onto gummed paper tape at a rate of 65 words per minute, the first combined start-stop transmitter-receiver teleprinter from Creed to enter mass production.
*In July 1928 Creed & Company became part of IT&T and Creed retired in 1930, turning his attention to other projects.
*He would go on to develop life-saving, ship-to-shore communication capabilities before he died in 1957.

OBITUARY-
Frederick George Creed, who as a boy fished the streams of his native Nova Scotia and as a young man gave to the world the first automatic communications system--the "Creed printer"- died Wednesday in London, it was learned yesterday.
Mr. Creed, born 86 years ago in Mill Village, Queens County started a career in communications at the age of 15 as a messenger with the Commercial Cable Company and at 27 he perfected the Creed telegraph system which revolutionized communications in the British Isles. It increased the flow of news to newspapers and today is in use throughout the world for the transmission of messages and news.
Mr. Creed's project first attracted his attention while he was a boy in Nova Scotia. Assigned to a South American position with the All-American Telegraph Company he toiled on the project there. A typewriter he took with him from Nova Scotia figured in the invention, serving as a pattern for the keyboard of his automatic transmitters.
In 1897 he moved to Britain and in Glasgow, Scotland, he operated a small bicycle repair shop to earn a living while he was trying to attract the attention of powerful interests in his invention. Eventually he was successful and the "printer" was installed for the first time in London in 1912. His brother, the late Jason Creed, introduced the Creed telegraph system to Canada and the United States.
When he was about seven years old, his father, John Richard Creed, moved his family to Canso, where Frederick Creed was employed as a messenger boy with the Commercial Cable Company. He returned to Mill Village to attend school, and was introduced to woods lore by a teacher there. His interest in outdoor life took him fishing in the Medway River and in many streams in the province.
He moved to Britain, but his continuing interest in Nova Scotia brought him back to the province in 1929, when he spent three months at Mill Village, recovering from a serious illness. Mr. Creed's invention increased in popularity to become the backbone of news wire services and commercial communication systems. One of the earliest users of the system was the British Post Office.
*Mr. Creed married twice. His first wife died in 1945 after 50 years of marriage. He was married again when he was 76.
*Mr. Creed was an ardent temperance advocate and chairman of the "strength of Britain" movement. He and Lady Astor started a movement to introduce prohibition in England in 1925.
During the war he was consultant to the admiralty on small ship design.
The freedom of the city of London was conferred on him in January of this year (1957).
In 1919 he patented the seadrome, a service of floating platforms to facilitate trans-oceanic plane flights. He suggested that the seadromes be placed 300 to 500 miles apart and provide space for planes to be refueled while crew and passengers rested.

Immigration records---
1. "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924"-Frederick George Creed, 1913.
On 13 Sept 1913, married 42yo 'Telegraph Engineer' F G Creed sailed on the S. S. 'Lusitania' from Liverpool, England to New York, USA. His wife, Mrs. Creed lived on Melville Avenue in Croydon.
2. "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924"-Frederick George Creed, 1924.
On 22 Mar 1924 married, 52yo Frederick George Creed sailed on the S. S. 'Berengaria from Southampton, England to New York (residence-Croydon); his wife was Mrs. Creed of Bramley Hillside, Haling Park Rd. in Croydon. Born in Canso, Nova Scotia, he planned to stay with his brother, Jason S. Creed of 5th Avenue, New York.