Mandell Creighton Quotes
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
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Birth: | 5th July, 1843 |
Death: | 14th January, 1901 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Historian |
Mandell Creighton 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.
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