CREASY, SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD
English historian, was born at Bexley in Kent, and educated at Eton and King's college, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1837. In 1840 he was appointed professor of mod ern and ancient history in the university of London, and in 186o became chief justice of Ceylon and a knight. He died in London on Jan. 27, 1878.
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (Marathon, Syracuse, Arbela or Gaugamela, the Met aurus, the defeat of Varus, Chalons, Tours, Hastings, Joan of Arc's victory at Orleans, the Spanish Armada, Blenheim, Poltava, Saratoga, Valmy and Waterloo), which, first published in 1851, has passed through many editions. He also wrote The History of the Ottoman Turks
; History of England (1869-7o) ; Rise and Progress of the English Constitution (1853) ; Historical and Critical Account of the Several Invasions of England (1852).
