Anthony Buck Creeke, Town Clerk, Burnley

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308767

Reference identifier

EBU-U01-P581-3-1

Title

Anthony Buck Creeke, Town Clerk, Burnley

Place

Burnley

Personal names

Anthony Buck Creeke

General notes

Anthony Buck Creeke was the town clerk of Burnley 1863-1886.
Mr Anthony Buck Creeke was born at London in 1831, but came to Burnley at the age of twelve years, being adopted by his uncle, Mr Anthony Buck, solicitor in the town, and one of the first Aldermen of the Borough. Anthony Buck Creeke was educated at Egremont and at Burnley Grammar School. Ordinarily he would have expected to become a solicitor like his uncle, but in 1855, the Crimean War was on, and he joined the militia. He served both at Aldershot and in Ireland, and it was only on his release that he joined the legal firm of Buck and Eastwood, which later became Messrs Buck, Eastwood and Creeke. In 1856, Anthony Buck Creeke was elected on to the board as one of the Burnley Improvement Commissioners, and even though he was still a young man became chairman of several committees. When the Charter of Incorporation was granted to Burnley on October 24, 1861, Mr Creeke was one of those first few elected to the first Burnley Council. Two years later he resigned to become the town's second Town Clerk, succeeding Mr Handsley, the first town clerk in November 1863. The death of Mr Anthony Buck Creeke was reported in the local newspapers on February 12, 1919.
SOURCE: Lancashire Telegraph, 25th November 2004, Bygone Burnley, Jack Nadin.

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Year of image

1863

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