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Born in 1856 the second son of Jeremiah Creswell (Magdalen Hall, Oxford), of 5, Lansdowne Villas, East Down Park, Lee.
School - Blackheath
Admitted pensioner at Magdalene 1 October 1874
Matriculated Easter 1875; Scholar
B.A. (Class. Trip., 1st Class) 1879; M.A. 1882
Fellow and tutor
Steward
Esquire Bedell, 1893-9
According to A.S. Ramsey in Bygone Days at Magdalene his election to Bedell caused much excitement. His opponant was a man from Trinity. Gill won by the votes of a score of old members of the College whom Francis Pattrick had brought up and held in reserve until the last few minutes the poll was open.
Fellow of King's College, London, 1885-99
Author of Life and Poems of Lefroy
HIs health broke down and he was sent to Egypt for the winter of 1897-98 and to the Riviera in the following winter.
He died on 7 December 1899, aged 43, at Lugano, Switzerland.