CREASY

Sir Edward Shepherd ( son of Edward Hill Creasy of Bexley, Kent, land agent ). b. Bexley 1812; ed. at Eton, Newcastle scholar 1831; scholar of King’s coll. Cam. 1832, fellow 1834, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1837; profe or of ancient and modern history in Univ. coll. London 1840–60; chief justice of Ceylon 19 March 1860 to 1875 when he retired on pension of £1600; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 March 1860; profe or of jurisprudence to the four Inns of Court, London; author of Memoirs of eminent Etonians 1850, 2 ed. 1876; The fifteen decisive battles of the world from Marathon to Waterloo 2 vols. 1851, 28 ed. 1877; The history of the rise and progre of the English constitution 1853, 14 ed. 1888; History of the Ottoman Turks 2 vols. 1854, new ed. 1877; History of England 2 vols. 1869–70; The old love and the new 3 vols. 1870. d. 15 Cecil st. Strand, London 27 Jany. 1878. I.L.N. lxxii , 133 (1878), portrait .