Mandell Creighton, English bishop and historian (born 1843)

Mandell Creighton

British historian and bishop (1843–1901)

Mandell Creighton was a British historian, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a successful carpenter in north-west England, Creighton studied at the University of Oxford, focusing his scholarship on the Renaissance Papacy, and then became a don in 1866. He was appointed the…