See also: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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge
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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
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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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