Creasy

Creasy, SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD, born at Bexley in Kent, in 1812, from Eton passed to King's College, Cambridge, in 1832, and in 1834 was elected a fellow. Called to the bar in 1837, he went on the home circuit for upwards of twenty years, and presided for three or four years as assistant-judge at the Westminster Sessions Court. In 1860 he was appointed chief-justice of Ceylon, and knighted. Ten years later he came home invalided on a year's leave of absence, after which he went out again, but was obliged to return home finally after struggling with his malady for two years more. He died at London, January 27, 1878. In 1840 he was appointed professor of History in University College. Creasy was the author of The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (1851), Invasions of England (1852), History of the Ottoman Turks (1854-56), &c.