Curtin was born in Creswick in central Victoria.

His father was a police officer of Irish descent ; Curtin attended school until the age of 14 when he started working for a newspaper in Creswick.

He was born in Creswick, Victoria.

Lindsay was the son of Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay from Creswick.

Lindsay wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding published in 1918 and created a scandal when his novel Redheap ( supposedly based on his hometown, Creswick ) was banned due to censorship laws.

Kingston was once a thriving gold mining town during the Victorian Gold Rush and became the administrative centre of the Creswick Shire.

It was formed in 1995 from the merger of the Shire of Creswick, Shire of Daylesford and Glenlyon and parts of the Shire of Kyneton and Shire of Talbot and Clunes.

A memorial to members of the club who lost their lives in World War I was designed by Benjamin Creswick, and now stands inside the centre.

The railway layout at Daylesford station was unusual in that the lines from Creswick and Carlsruhe both entered the station from the same end.

There is also some speculation that the artist Thomas Creswick ( 1811 – 1869 ) was born at Wadsley Hall, although two other Sheffield locations are claimed as his birthplace.

* Phil Creswick of the boyband Big Fun was born in Charlwood

Big Fun was an English boy band ( 1988 – 1994 ), featuring Phil Creswick, Mark Gillespie and Jason John ( a. k. a. Jason Herbert ), and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman.

When the State Government announced the Victorian Transport Plan, along with V / Line services being extended to Maryborough, Clunes was not part of the plan ( with the only stations being Creswick and Maryborough ).

Creswick was named after the Creswick family, the pioneer settlers of the region.

It was located in the centre of the state, covering the towns of Creswick, Maldon and Maryborough, and later Castlemaine.

Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, the seventh child and second daughter of Robert and Jane Lindsay, and lived in Melbourne from the age of 16 with her brother Percy while studying at the National Gallery of Victoria School.

Thomas Creswick ( 5 February 1811 – 28 December 1869 ) was an English landscape painter and illustrator, and one of the best-known members of the Birmingham School of landscape painters.

Creswick was born in Sheffield ( at the time it was within Derbyshire ).

He was the son of Thomas Creswick and Mary Epworth and educated at Hazelwood, near Birmingham.

Creswick was industrious and extremely prolific ; he produced, besides a steady outpouring of paintings, numerous illustrations for books.

An incident occurred when Nathaniel Creswick was being held by Shaw and Waterfall.

The original report stated that Creswick was accidentally punched by Waterfall.

This underground exhibit tells the story of the mining disaster at Creswick in 1882 in which 22 miners died due to the collapse and flooding of the New Australasian No 2 Mine.

The AWU grew from a number of earlier unions, notably the Australasian Shearers Union, founded by William Spence and David Temple in Creswick, Victoria in 1886.

Creswick and Prest were responsible for drawing up the club's rules of play, which decided upon at the club's AGM on 21 October 1858.

Creswick is located on the Midland Highway.

Among his principal works may be named England ( 1847 ); Home by the Sands, and a Squally Day ( 1848 ); Passing Showers ( 1849 ); The Wind on Shore, a First Glimpse of the Sea, and Old Trees ( 1850 ); A Mountain Lake, Moonrise ( 1852 ); Changeable Weather ( 1865 ); also the London Road, a Hundred Years ago ; The Weald of Kent ; the Valley Mill ( a Cornish subject ); a Shady Glen ; the Windings of a River ; the Shade of the Beech Trees ; the Course of the Greta ; the Wharfe ; Glendalough, and other Irish subjects, 1836 to 1840 ; the Forest Farm Frith for figures, and Ansdell for animals, occasionally worked in collaboration with Creswick.

In 1850, Ansdell started collaborating on pictures with Thomas Creswick, who specialised in landscapes ( e. g. :" The South Downs ", " England's day in the country " etc .).

* Phil Creswick ( born 12 October 1965 )

Philip Creswick ( born 12 October 1965, Charlwood, Surrey, England ) is an English musician and songwriter, and a former member of the boy band, Big Fun ( 1989 – 94 ).

In 1882, architect A. H. Mackmurdo formed the Century Guild, a partnership of designers including Selwyn Image, Herbert Horne, Clement Heaton and Benjamin Creswick.

Creswick is the birthplace of the Lindsays, perhaps Australia's best known art family.

Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest formed the Sheffield Football Club.

It is a brick building, the façade decorated with a terracotta frieze depicting the processes of knife-making by the sculptor Benjamin Creswick, who had worked as a knife-grinder in Sheffield.

Kingston is located about 15 km from Creswick, just off the Midland Highway and is about 20 km from Daylesford.

It includes the towns of Clunes, Creswick, Daylesford, Hepburn Springs and Trentham.

The latter then sold to a Brigadier Knox, who in turn sold all except to Alex Creswick.

In 1968 / 69, Hooker-Rex Estates purchased from the Creswick family, some for the current housing estate.

Pridmore Park, Yarra Bank Reserve, Creswick Street Reserve and St James Park are in Hawthorn, Dickinsons Reserve, Yarra Bend Park, Studley Park Golf Course and Studley Park are in Kew.

In addition, Melbourne Grammar owns many of the terrace houses in Domain Street to provide accommodation for its masters, as well as the grand Victorian terrace house in Domain Road, Creswick House, home to its middle school boarders.

The division currently takes in the regional City of Ballarat and the smaller towns of Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Daylesford, Creswick, Trentham and Clunes.

In 1897, George Creswick bought the house and the land.