Professor the Rev. Mandell Creighton, M.A., was born at Carlisle, and
educated at Durham Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford. He was
ordained deacon in 1870 and priest in 1873, and in 1875 accepted the
living of Embleton, in Northumberland. In 1884 he was elected to the
newly founded professorship of Ecclesiastical History in the University
of Cambridge. In 1885 he was appointed by the Crown canon residentiary
of Worcester Cathedral. He is the author of several historical works:
"Primer of Roman History," 1875; "The Age of Elizabeth," 1876; etc. His
principal work is a "History of the Papacy During the Period of the
Reformation." He was appointed Bishop of Peterborough in 1891.
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