Mandell Creighton (1843-1901; ODNB), bishop of London, 1897-1901. Merton Coll., Oxford; first Dixie professor of ecclesiastical history, Cambridge, 1884-9; bishop of Peterborough, 1891-7; publications included The English National Character (1896); Henson preached on Creighton after his funeral in Westminster Abbey ('Christian Versatility', in Godly Union and Concord (1902), 30-44) and recalled attending Creighton's lectures 'nearly twenty years ago', adding that '[h]e is a very great loss: quite one of the most eminent men in the Church of England': Henson to Spelling, 22 Apr. 1901, HHH178. Henson took a different view of Creighton in embracing disestablishment: See Disestablishment (1929), and Volume 65, where he identifies Creighton with Erastianism. See also Volume 71, 73.

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• 6 Jan 1901
• 14 Jan 1901
• 20 Jan 1901
• 10 Jan 1904
• 24 Aug 1913
• 17 Oct 1914
• 2 Sep 1915
• 15 Dec 1915
• 12 Jul 1916
• 23 Mar 1917
• 25 Apr 1917
• 27 Apr 1917
• 14 May 1917
• 7 Sep 1918
• 17 Oct 1918
• 19 Apr 1920

See also Creighton [née von Glehn], Louise