M. (Mandell) Creighton

Mandell Creighton was a British historian, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a stern but successful carpenter, Creighton studied at University of Oxford, focusing his scholarship on the Renaissance Papacy. He was appointed the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge in 1884. The following year, he also was engaged as the first editor of the English Historical Review, the oldest English language academic journal in its field. In these posts, he helped to establish history as an independent academic discipline in England.