2 Quotes & Sayings By Pw Creighton
Peter William Creighton was born in London, England, on April 13, 1868, the only son of a British Army officer who had been invalided home from the Sudan. His father died from a tropical fever when Creighton was three and he and his mother moved to Penang (now Malaysia) where Creighton stayed until he was fourteen. From age 14 to 20 he attended Marlborough College and served as a lieutenant in the British Army. He entered the University of Cambridge in 1887 and read medicine at King's College
In 1890 he began his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified as a surgeon in 1894. During this period Creighton also published two volumes of poetry under the pseudonym "G.F. Stewart." He soon moved to India where he worked for seven years as a surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley where he met and married Eva Harding.
They eventually divorced and Eva remained in India with their daughter, Eva Harding Creighton (later Mrs. Harcourt), while Creighton returned to England to take up a post as chief medical officer for the East India Company at Lucknow (1899–1901). In 1902 he returned to England and started work as a general practitioner at Bayham Street, Hastings, which position he held until his retirement in 1935.
During World War I he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was commissioned as a lieutenant-colonel after recovering from serious wounds received at Gallipoli.