Creighton as Bishop of London, by Sir Hubert von Herkomer.
Church
Church of England
Diocese
Diocese of London
Elected
1896
Installed
January 1897
Term ended
1901 (death)
Predecessor
Frederick Temple
Successor
Arthur Winnington-Ingram
Other post(s)
Bishop of Peterborough 1891–1896
Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History (1884–1891)
Orders
Ordination
c. 1866
Consecration
April 1891
Personal details
Born
(1843-07-05)5 July 1843
Carlisle, Cumberland
Died
14 January 1901(1901-01-14) (aged 57)
Buried
St Paul's Cathedral, London
Nationality
British
Denomination
Anglican
Parents
Robert Creighton & Sarah Mandell
Spouse
Louise von Glehn (m. 1872)
Children
7 children
Profession
Historian
Alma mater
Merton College, Oxford
Mandell Creighton (/ˈmændəlˈkraɪtən/; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901)[a] was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship established around the time that history was emerging as an independent academic discipline. He was also the first editor of the English Historical Review, the oldest English language academic journal in the field of history. Creighton had a second career as a cleric in the Church of England. He served as a parish priest in Embleton, Northumberland and later, successively, as a Canon Residentiary of Worcester Cathedral, the Bishop of Peterborough and the Bishop of London. His moderation and worldliness drew praise from Queen Victoria and won notice from politicians. It was widely thought at the time that Creighton would have become the Archbishop of Canterbury had his early death, at age 57, not supervened.
Creighton's historical work received mixed reviews. He was praised for scrupulous even-handedness, but criticised for not taking a stand against historical excesses. For his part, he was firm in asserting that public figures be judged for their public acts, not private ones. His preference for the concrete to the abstract diffused through his writings on the Church of England. He believed that the church was uniquely shaped by its particular English circumstances, and advocated that it reflect the views and wishes of the English people.
Creighton was married to the author and future women's suffrage activist Louise Creighton, and the couple had seven children. The Creightons were passionately interested in the education of children and together wrote over a dozen school history primers. A man of complex intelligence and exceptional vigour, Mandell Creighton was emblematic of the Victorian era both in his strengths and in his failings.
^Levens, R. G. C.; Harrison, A. R. W.; Merton College, eds. (1964), Merton College Register, 1900-1964: With Notices of Some Older Surviving Members, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 5–6, OCLC 1311152042
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MandellCreighton (/ˈmændəl ˈkraɪtən/; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the...
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maternal grandfather was MandellCreighton, a fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Her maternal grandmother was Louise Creighton, who was an alumnus of the...
MetPublications". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-07-20. MandellCreighton; Justin Winsor; Samuel Rawson Gardiner; Reginald Lane Poole; Sir John...
and the Whigs historian John Richard Green. In 1872, Louise married MandellCreighton, a University of Oxford-educated historian who later became a University...
herself". The speech has been accepted as genuine by the historians MandellCreighton, Garrett Mattingly, Patrick Collinson ("...there is no reason to doubt...
Chestnuts, held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace on 30 October 1501. MandellCreighton accepts the story as basically true, and he cites the corroborative...
historian and prelate MandellCreighton, began in 1907 with a grant of £650, half of which was donated by his widow, Louise Creighton. Source: 1907 Thomas...
but none have been accepted by scholars at present. According to MandellCreighton in his History of the Papacy, "Lucrezia… was personally popular through...
abolished and replaced by the professorship that still bears his name. MandellCreighton (1884) Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1891-1912) James Pounder Whitney (1919-1939)...
of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation, Volume 2, by MandellCreighton, 1885, page 17. Minnich, Nelson H. (2018-10-24). The Decrees of the...
Crusade. Oxford University Press. 2011. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-19-161640-2. MandellCreighton; Justin Winsor; Samuel Rawson Gardiner; Reginald Lane Poole; Sir John...
of the Early Patrician Documents", The English Historical Review, (MandellCreighton et al, eds.), Longman., July 1904, p. 499 Hosie, Bronwen. "The solution...
"Iron Crown of Lombardy". Encyclopædia Britannica. July 22, 2013. MandellCreighton: A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation, Cambridge...
Church of England's calendar is "Charles, King and Martyr, 1649". MandellCreighton, Bishop of London, wrote "Had Charles been willing to abandon the...
of the Early Patrician Documents", The English Historical Review, (MandellCreighton et al, eds.), Longman., July 1904, p. 499 Bridgwater, William; Kurtz...
advising them to go no further in their efforts to depose Eugene. MandellCreighton remarks, "The quarrel of the Pope and the Council now ceased to attract...
where the Belgrad Forest still remains as testimony to this ... MandellCreighton; Justin Winsor; Samuel Rawson Gardiner; Reginald Lane Poole; Sir John...
Willis Clark Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods 1895 MandellCreighton The Early Renaissance in England 1896 J. J. Thomson Röntgen rays 1897...
see of London again fell vacant in February 1901, on the death of MandellCreighton, it was offered to Davidson, who refused it on firm medical advice...
Spencer Madan Bishop John Hinchliffe Richard Cumberland (philosopher) MandellCreighton (d.1901) Bishop of Peterborough Bishop William Connor Magee, Archbishop...
Kalms, Baron Kalms of Edgware (industry) Sir Sidney Colvin (museums) MandellCreighton (CoE bishop) C. B. Fry (sports) Henry Sidgwick (philosopher and economist)...
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