ended death_date children consecration nationality article_title birth_date alt church alma_mater title profession spouse image diocese name caption enthroned predecessor birth_place buried parents successor religion elected ordination
1901 -lrb- death -rrb- 14 january 1901 7 children april 1891 british mandell creighton
 5 july 1843 a with greying hair and a long grey beard , sitting painting in a wooden chair . he wears a puffy white of shirt , a black stole , and a long red a robe ; he also wears small round glasses , and gaunt around his neck is a large gold cross . and balding man , church of england merton college , oxford bishop of london historian louise -rrb- von glehn -lrb- m. & nbsp ; 1872 mandell creighton by sir hubert von herkomer.jpg diocese of london mandell creighton creighton von herkomer . as bishop of london , by sir hubert january 1897 frederick temple carlisle , cumbria st paul 's cathedral , london robert creighton & sarah mandell arthur winnington-ingram anglican 1896 c. & nbsp ; 1866
mandell creighton

mandell creighton -lrb- ; 5 july 1843 -- 14 january 1901 -rrb- , 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 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 .
