Mandell Creighton was a British historian, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a successful cabinet-maker in north-west England, Creighton studied at the University of Oxford, focusing his scholarship on the Renaissance Papacy, and then became a don in 1866.
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Creighton, aged 15, the year he left Carlisle for Durham School
Creighton in the group "The Quadrilateral", at Merton College, Oxford, 1864. From left to right: R. T. Raikes, Creighton, C. T. Boyd, and W. H. Foster
Creighton as a Merton College tutorial fellow in 1870, a year before he met his future wife, Louise
Louise Creighton by Glyn Philpot
The Embleton vicarage with its pele tower
Creighton, aged 38, signing, "Yours very sincerely, M. Creighton"
Creighton with three of his daughters (from left to right), Lucia, Beatrice, and Mary, in 1888. The Creightons' fourth daughter and seventh child, Gemma, born the previous year, is not shown.In their orbit 1
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About this person
Mandell Creighton was a British historian, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a successful cabinet-maker in north-west England, Creighton studied at the University of Oxford, focusing his scholarship on the Renaissance Papacy, and then became a don in 1866. He was appointed the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge in 1884. The following year, he also was engaged as the founding editor of The English Historical Review, the first English-language academic journal in its field. In these posts, he helped to establish history as an independent academic discipline in England.
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