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Maurice Alpheus Bigelow

About the Author

Mandell Creighton (1843–1901) was an eminent historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge until his appointment as bishop of Peterborough, he later was made bishop of London. He wrote a number of biographies, as well as his masterwork, the History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation.