M. Creighton

M. Creighton
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Short Name: M. Creighton
Full Name: Creighton, M. (Mandell), 1843-1901
Birth Year: 1843
Death Year: 1901

Creighton, Mandell, D.D., was b. at Carlisle, July 5, 1843, consecrated Bishop of Peterborough, 1891, translated to London 1896, and d. at Fulham, London, Jan. 14, 1901. For details of his career see the most interesting Life and Letters, 1904, edition by his wife. He was the author of only one hymn, "O Thou Who gavest power to love" (Holy Matrimony). This he wrote in London, early in 1900. He gave a copy in manuscript to the Hon. Sarah Kathleen, daughter of the 4th Lord Lyttleton, who bad it printed, and it was first used on April 26, 1900, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, on the occasion of her marriage to Mr. J. C. Bailey, of Egerton Gardens, London. It is in Bp. Creighton's Life & Letters, 1904, vol. ii., p. 515, and The English Hymnal, 1906. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Mandell Creighton (/ˈmændəl ˈkraɪtən/; 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship established around the time that history was emerging as an independent academic discipline. He was also the first editor of the English Historical Review, the oldest English language academic journal in the field of history. Creighton had a second career as a cleric in the Church of England. He served as a parish priest in Embleton, Northumberland and later, successively, as a Canon Residentiary of Worcester Cathedral, the Bishop of Peterborough and the Bishop of London. His moderation and worldlin

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