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MANDELL See also:CREIGHTON (1843—1901)
, See also:English historian and See also:bishop of See also:London, was See also:born at See also:Carlisle on the 5th of See also:July 1843, being the eldest son of See also:Robert See also:Creighton, a well-to-do See also:upholsterer of that See also:city
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He was educated at See also:Durham See also:grammar school and at Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he was elected to a postmaster-See also:ship in 1862
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He obtained a first-class in literae humaniores, and a second in See also:law and See also:modern See also:history in 1866
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In the same See also:year he became See also:tutor and See also:fellow of Merton
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He was ordained See also:deacon, on his fellowship, in 1870, and See also:priest in 1873; in 1872 he had married See also:Louise, daughter of Robert von Glehn, a London See also:merchant (herself a writer of several successful books of history)
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Meanwhile he had published several small See also:historical See also:works; but his college and university duties See also:left little See also:time for See also:writing,
and in 1875 he accepted the vicarage of Embleton, a See also:parish on the See also:coast of See also:Northumberland, near Dunstanburgh, with an See also:ancient and beautiful See also: In 1891 he was made canon of See also:Windsor; but he never went into residence, being appointed in the same year to the see of See also:Peterborough . He threw himself with characteristic See also:energy into his new work, visiting, See also:preaching and lecturing in every part of his See also:diocese . He also found time to preach and lecture elsewhere, and to deliver remarkable speeches at social functions; he worked hard with See also:Archbishop See also:Benson on the Parish See also:Councils See also:Bill (1894); he became the first See also:president of the Church Historical Society (1894), and continued in that See also:office till his See also:death; he took part in the See also:Laud See also:Commemoration (1845); he represented the English Church at the See also:coronation of the See also:tsar (1896) . He even found time for academical work, delivering the Hulsean lectures (1893–1894) and the Rede lecture (1894) at Cambridge, and the See also:Romanes lecture at Oxford (1896) . In 1897, on the See also:translation of Dr See also:Temple to See also:Canterbury, Bishop Creighton was transferred to London . During Dr Temple's episcopate See also:ritual irregularities of all kinds had grown up, which left a very difficult task to his successor, more especially in view of the growing public agitation on the subject, of which he had to See also:bear the brunt . As was only natural, his studied fairness did not satisfy partisans on either See also:side; and his efforts towards conciliation laid him open to much misunderstanding . His See also:administration, none the less, did much to preserve See also:peace . He strained every See also:nerve to induce his See also:clergy to accept his ruling on the questions of the See also:reservation of the See also:Sacrament and of the ceremonial use of See also:incense in accordance with the archbishop's See also:judgment in the See also:Lincoln See also:case; but when, during his last illness, a prosecutor brought proceedings against the clergy of five recalcitrant churches, the bishop, on the See also:advice of his See also:arch-deacons, interposed his See also:veto . One other effort on behalf of peace may be mentioned . In accordance with a See also:vote of the diocesan See also:conference, the bishop arranged the " See also:Round Table Conference " between representative members of various parties, held at See also:Fulham in See also:October 1900, on " the See also:doctrine of the See also:Holy See also:Eucharist and its expression in ritual," and a See also:report of its proceedings was published with a See also:preface by him . The true work of his episcopate was, however, See also:positive, not negative . He was an excellent See also:administrator; and his wide knowledge, broad sympathies, and See also:sound See also:common sense, though they placed him outside the point of view common to most of his clergy, made him an invaluable See also:guide in correcting their too often in-discreet zeal . He fully realized the See also:special position of the English Church in Christendom, and firmly maintained its essential teaching . Yet he was no narrow See also:Anglican . His love for the English Church never blinded him to its faults, and no See also:man was less insular than he . As he was a historian before he became a bishop, so it was his historical sense which determined his See also:general attitude as a bishop . It was this, together with a certain native See also:taste for ecclesiastical pomp, which made him—while condemning the unhistorical extravagances of the ultraritualists—himself a ritualist . He was the first bishop of London,since the See also:Reformation, to " pontificate " in a See also:mitre as well as the See also:cope, and though no man could have been less essentially " sacerdotal " he was always careful of correct ceremonial usage . His interests and his sympathies, however, extended far beyond the limits of the church . He took a foremost part in almost every good work in his diocese, social or educational, See also:political or religious; while he found time also to cultivate friendly relations with thinking men and See also:women of all See also:schools, and to help all and sundry who came to him for advice and assistance . It was this multiplicity of activities and interests that proved fatal to him . By degrees the work, and especially the routine work, began to tell on him . He See also:fell seriously See also:ill in the See also:late summer of 1900, and died on the 14th of See also:January 1901 .
He was buried in St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral, where a statue surmounts his See also:tomb
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He was a man of striking presence and distinguished by a fine See also:courtesy of manner
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His irrespressible and often daring See also:humour, together with his See also:frank distaste for much conventional religious phraseology, was a stumbling-See also:block to some pious See also:people
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But beneath it all See also:lay a deep seriousness of purpose and a See also:firm faith in what to him were the fundamental truths of See also:religion
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Bishop Creighton's See also:principal published works are: History of the Papacy during the See also:Period of the Reformation (5 vols., 1882-1897, new ed.); History of the Papacy from the See also:Great See also:Schism to the See also:Sack of See also:Rome (6 vols., 1897); The Early See also:Renaissance in See also:England (1895); See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey (1895); See also:Life of See also:Simon de See also:Montfort (1876, new ed
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