A year later another son, James, was born to the couple and in 1846, a daughter, Mary, who died before the year was out. His father, a carpenter, had built a successful cabinet-making and decorating business on Castle Street, the main thoroughfare in Carlisle.
His mother was the tenth child of Thomas Mandell, a yeoman farmer from Bolton, Cumberland. Mandell Creighton was born on 5 July 1843 in the border country city of Carlisle, Cumberland (now in Cumbria) to Sarah ( née Mandell) and Robert Creighton. Left to right: James, Robert, Mary Ellen (Polly), and Mandell. A man of complex intelligence and exceptional vigour, Mandell Creighton was emblematic of the Victorian era both in his strengths and in his failings. The Creightons were passionately interested in the education of children and together wrote over a dozen school history primers. He believed that the church was uniquely shaped by its particular English circumstances, and advocated that it reflect the views and wishes of the English people.Ĭreighton was married to the author and future women's suffrage activist Louise Creighton, and the couple had seven children. His preference for the concrete to the abstract diffused through his writings on the Church of England. For his part, he was firm in asserting that public figures be judged for their public acts, not private ones. He was praised for scrupulous even-handedness, but criticised for not taking a stand against historical excesses. It was widely thought at the time that Creighton would have become the Archbishop of Canterbury had his early death, at age 57, not supervened.Ĭreighton's historical work received mixed reviews. His moderation and worldliness drew praise from Queen Victoria and won notice from politicians. 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. Creighton had a second career as a cleric in the Church of England. He was also the first editor of the English Historical Review, the oldest English language academic journal in the field of history. 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. Mandell Creighton ( / ˈ m æ n d əl ˈ k r aɪ t ən/ 5 July 1843 – 14 January 1901) was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England.
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