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CREASY, SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD (1812-1878)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 388 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CREASY, SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD (1812-1878) , English historian, was born at
Bexley
  in Kent, and educated at
Eton
  and King's College,
Cambridge
 . He became a fellow of King's College in 1834, and having been called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn three years later, was made assistant judge at the Westminster sessions
court
 . In 1840 he was appointed professor of modern and ancient history in the university of London, and in 186o became
chief
 
justice
  of Ceylon and a knight. Broken down in
health
  he returned to England in 1870, and after a further but short stay in Ceylon died in London on the 27th of January 1878. Creasy's most popular
work
  is his Fifteen decisive Battles of the World, which, first published in 1851, has passed through many editions. He also wrote The History of the Ottoman Turks (London, 18541856); History of England (London, 1869187o) ; Rise and Progress of the English Constitution (London, 1853, and other editions) ; Historical and
Critical
  Account of the several Invasions of England (London, 1852); a novel entitled Old Love and the New (London, 1870); and various other works.


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