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SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY (1812-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 388 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:EDWARD SHEPHERD See also:CREASY (1812-1878)  , See also:English historian, was See also:born at See also:Bexley in See also:Kent, and educated at See also:Eton and See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He became a See also:fellow of King's College in 1834, and having been called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn three years later, was made assistant See also:judge at the See also:Westminster sessions See also:court . In 1840 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:modern and See also:ancient See also:history in the university of See also:London, and in 186o became See also:chief See also:justice of See also:Ceylon and a See also:knight . Broken down in See also:health he returned to See also:England in 1870, and after a further but See also:short stay in Ceylon died in London on the 27th of See also:January 1878 . See also:Creasy's most popular See also:work is his Fifteen decisive Battles of the See also:World, which, first published in 1851, has passed through many See also:editions . He also wrote The History of the See also:Ottoman See also:Turks (London, 1854–1856); History of England (London, 1869–187o) ; Rise and Progress of the English Constitution (London, 1853, and other editions) ; See also:Historical and See also:Critical See also:Account of the several Invasions of England (London, 1852); a novel entitled Old Love and the New (London, 1870); and various other See also:works .

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