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EDWARD SHEPHERD

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• SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY (1812-1878)

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