Mandell Creighton

CREIGHTON, Mandell. b. Carlisle, 5 July 1843; d. London, 14 January 1901. He was educated at Carlisle and at the Grammar School, Durham, followed by Merton College, Oxford (BA 1866, MA 1870). He took Holy Orders (deacon 1870, priest 1873), becoming successively vicar of Embleton, Northumberland (1874-84), Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge (1884-91), Bishop of Peterborough (1891-97), and Bishop of London (1897-1901). One of the great bishops of the late Victorian period, he was the author of numerous books on historical and topographical subjects, including his five-volume unfinished History of the Papacy during the Period of the Reformation (1881-94). His marriage hymn,...