WORDSWORTH, CHARLES Bishop of St. Andrew's, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, Episcopal Church in Scotland, second son of Christopher Wordsworth (q.v., no. 1); b. at Lambeth (2 m. s. of Charing Cross, London) Aug. 22, 1806; d. at St. Andrew's (9 m. s.e. of Dundee), Scotland, Dec. 5, 1892. He was a student of Sevenoaks school, and at Harrow, and then of Christ Church College, Oxford (B.A., 1830); took the prize for Latin verse, 1827, and for the Latin essay, 1831; was ordained deacon 1834, priest 1840; was a private tutor for several years, and had under his instruction both Mr. Gladstone and Cardinal Manning; was second master of Winchester College, 1535-46; warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire, 1847-1854; and in 1853 was consecrated bishop. He had a strong faculty for teaching. As bishop he endeavored to preventAhe capture of the Scottish Episcopal church by a narrow party, to make manifest to Scotsmen the value of Episcopacy and Episcopal ordinances, and to concede somewhat to Presbyterians, whereby they might be conciliated. He was a stanch upholder of the synodal system and of the duty of establishment of religion. The diocese developed considerably during his episcopate. He was a- member of the New Testament Company of Bible Revisers, and was a fellow at Winchester, 1866-71. He published a Greek grammar (London, 1839), and his theological works, outside of a number of volumes of, and individual, sermons, embrace, Catecheticall Questions (1844); What is National Humiliation without National Repentance (Glasgow, 1855); On Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible (London, 1864); Outlines of the Christian Ministry (1872); Three Conclusive Proofs that the Use of the Eastward Position in the Celebration. of the Holy Eucharist is contrary to the . . . Intention of our Reformed Church (1876); Some Remarks on the Essay by Dr. Lightfoot . . . on, the Christian Ministry (1879); Annals of my Early Life (1891); Primary Witness to the Truth of the Gospel. A Series of Discourses (1892); and Annals of my Life, ed. W. Earl Hodgson (1893).

Bibliography: Besides his own Annals (ut sup., 2 vols.),

consult: John Wordsworth, Episcopate of Charles Wordsworth, London, 1899; DNB, 1xiii. 1-7.

WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER: Name of three Anglican scholars.

1. Biographer, younger brother of the poet William Wordsworth; b. at Cockermouth (23 m. s.w. of Carlisle) June 9, 1774; d. at Buxted (39 m. s.s.e. of London) Feb. 2, 1846. He was. graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1796; fellow, 1798; M.A., 1799; D.D., 1810); became rector of Ashby with Oby and Thinne (1804); domestic chaplain to the archbishop of Canterbury (1805); rector of Woodchurch, Kent (1806), of Bocking, Essex (1808), St. Mary's, Lambeth, and Sundridge, Kent (1816); chaplain of the House of Commons (1817); and rector of Buxted-with-Uckfield, Sussex (1820); he was master of Trinity College from 1820 till 1841, when he retired to Buxted. He is best remem-

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Wordsworth, bered for his Ecclesiastical Biography; or, Lives of Eminent Men connected with the History of Religion in England from the Commencement of the Reforma tion to the Revolution (London, 1810, 6 vols.; 4th ed., 1853, 4 vols.), and for his Who Wrote EIRON BA22I AIKH? (1824), a defense of King Charles' claim to be the author of Eikon Baeilike. He was also the author of two volumes of Sermons (1814), and edited Christian Institutes: a Series of Discourses and Tracts selected from the Writings of the most eminent Divines of the English Church (4 vols., 1836). 2. Youngest eon of the preceding, bishop of Lin coln, and commentator; b. at Bocking (38 m. n.e. of London) Oct. 30, 1807; d. at Lincqln Mar. 21, 1885. He was educated at Winchester and at Trin ity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1830; M.A., 1833; D.D., 1839); traveled in Greece (1832-33); was ordained deacon (1833), priest (1835); fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1830-36); public ora tor (1836); head master of Harrow School (1836 1844); canon of Westminster (1844-69); Hulaean lecturer, Cambridge (1847-48); vicar of Stanford in-the-Vale, Berkshire, and rural dean (1850-69); archdeacon of Westminster (1865-69); consecrated bishop of Lincoln (1869). In the administration of his diocese he was noted for independence and ex treme courage in carrying out his convictions; he caused a violent conflict with the Wesleyan Meth odists by inviting them to "return" to the Church of England; was reversed in the privy council in his decision not to permit"Reverend"on the gravestone of a Wesleyan in a churchyard; and was besides pronouncedly anti-Roman. He took part in the Old Catholic Congress held at Cologne, Sept., 1872. He was the author of Athens and Attics: Journal of a Residence there (London, 1836); Inscriptiones Pom pedance: Ancient Writings copied from the Walls of the City of Pompeii (1837); Greece: Pictorial, De scriptive, and Historical (1839; 8th ed., 1883); The ophilus Anglicanus; or, Instructions concerning the Church and the Anglican Branch of it (1843; 9th ed., 1865); Discourses on Public Education (1844); Diary in France (1845); Letters to M. Goudon on the De structive Character of the Church of Rome both in Re ligion and Polity (1847); Sequel to the Previov Let ters (1848); Scripture Inspiration; or, On the Canon of Holy Scripture (Hulaean lectures for 1847 1848); On the Apocalypse; or, Book of Revelation (Hulsean lecture for 1848; 1849); Harmony of the Apocalypse (1849); The Apocalypse in Greek (1849); Memoirs of William Wordsworth (2 vols., 1851); S. Hippoly tus and the Church of Rome in the Third Century, from the newly discovered "Philosophumena" (1853; new ed., 1880); The Greek New Testament, with Prefaces, Introductions, and Notes (4 parts, 1856-60; 2d ed., 1872); occasional sermons preached in Westminster Abbey (1850-68); On the Inspiration of the Bible (1861); The Holy Year; or, Original Hymns for Sun days and Holy Days (1862); The Old Testament in the Authorized Version, with Notes and Introductions (6 vols., 1864-71; 2d ed., 1868-72); Union with Rome: An Essay (1867); History of the Church of Ireland (eight sermons; 1869); Twelve Addresses at the Visitation of the Diocese and Cathedral of Lincoln (1873); On the Sale of Church Patronage; Irenicum Wedeyanum (1876); Diocesan Addresses at Visitation

(1876); Ethics et Spiritualia (1877); The Newtonian System: Its Analogy to Christianity (1877); Letters to Sir George Prevost, on Sisterhoods and Vows (1878); Ten Addresses at the Triennial Yisilalimt .(1879); Translations of the Pastoral Letters of Lambeth Conferences into Greek and Latin, Made by Desire of the Presiding Archbishops (1868 and 1878); A Church History to the Council of Chalcedorc, A.D. 481 (4 vols., 1881-83; new ed., 1906); Discourse on Scottish Church History (1884); Public Appeals in Behalf of Christian Liberty (2 vols., 1886). .

S. Historian; b. at Westminster, London, M&1'. 26, 1848. He was educated at Trinity College, Cam bridge (B.A., 1870), and was ordered deacon in 1871 and ordained priest in the following year; was fel low of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1870-78), where he was tutor (1872-74 and 1875-77); was curate.of Alvechurch (1874-75), and of St. Giles, Cambridge (1875-77); rector of Glaston, Rutlandahire (1877 1889), Steeple with Tyneham, Doraetshire (1889 1897), East Holme, Isle of Purbeck, Dorsetehire (1890-97), and since 1897 of St. Peter with St. Paul, Marlborough. He has also been prebendary of Lid dington in Lincoln Cathedral since 1886, surrogate of the diocese of Salisbury since 1898, and rural dean of Marlborough Portion and examining chaplain to the bishop of Worcester since 1905. He has written or edited Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1874); Schahs Aeademicce: Some Account of the Studies at the Eng lish Universities in the Eighteenth Century (1877); Breviarium ad Usum Sarum (in collaboration with F. Procter; 3 vols., 1879-86); Pontif cute Ecclesi,w Sancti Andrew (Edinburgh, 1885); Lincoln Cathe dral Statutes (3 vols., London, 1892-9?); Coronation of King Charles 1. (1892); Tracts of Clement May deston (1894); Notes on Mediceval Services in Eng land (1898); Ceremonies and Processions of the Cathe dral Church of Salisbury (1901); Old Service-Books of the English Church (in collaboration with H. Littlehales; 1904); and Precedence of English Bish ops and the Provincial Chapters (1906).

Bibliography: On 1: Charles Wordsworth, Annals of my Early Life, London, 1891; E. Churton, Memoir of Joshua Watson, Oxford, 1881; DNB, lxiii. 7-8. On 2: J. H. Overton and Elizabeth Wordsworth, Christopher Wordaworth, Bishop of Lincoln, London, 1888; J. H. Overton, The Church in England, 1399, 401, 415; ib. 1897; F. W. Cornish, English Church in the 19th Century, passim, ib. 1910; E. Stock, English Church in the 19th Century, pas sim, ib. 1910; DNB, baii. 9-10.