William Creech
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
a Scotch clergyman, studied at Edinburgh University; became tutor to George Cranstoun; was licensed to preach in 1733; called to the living at Newbattle in 1738; ordained in 1739, and died August 21, 1745, aged forty years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:296, 297.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
An Edinburgh bookseller, for 40 years the chief publisher in the city; published the first Edinburgh edition of Burns's poems (1745-1815).
