Creighton, MANDELL

Creighton, MANDELL, historian, born at Carlisle, 5th July 1843, from Durham School gained a postmastership at Merton College, Oxford, in 1862, and was elected a fellow in 1866. He became vicar of Embleton, Northumberland, in 1875, first professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge in 1884, Bishop of Peterborough in 1891, and of London (1896). His chief works are Simon de Montfort (1876), History of the Papacy during the Reformation Period (5 vols. 1882-94), and the sumptuous Queen Elizabeth (1897).