DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.
_ LONDON, January 14. The death is announced of the Light Rev Dr Creighton, Bishop of London, aged fifty-eight. [The Right Rev Mandell Creighton, P.C., D„D., D.CX., was born at Carlisle iin 1843, and educated* at Durham Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford, graduating at Oxford, Cambridge and Glasgow. From 1867 to 187 o he was fellow and tutor at Merton College, and lie then received the vicarage of Embleton, Northumberland, which he held until 1884. From 1881 to 1884 the reverend gentleman was rural Dean of Alnwick; in 1884-1891 Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge; and in 1885-1891 Canon Residentiary of Worcester Cathedral. In 1891 he was preferred to the bishopric of Peterborough, and in 1896 represented the Church of England at .the coronation of the Czar of Russia. Bishop Creighton succeeded to the bishopric of London on Dr Temple’s elevation to the Archbishopric of Canterbury in 1897. Among his many publications, which were principally or a historical nature, were a life of Simon de Montfort and of Wolsey, “The Age of Elizabeth,” “The Tudors and the Reformation,” “The History of Carlisle," and “The Early Renaissance in England.”]
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 35
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