Christopher Wordsworth (liturgiologist)

Christopher Wordsworth (born Westminster, 26 March 1848; died Salisbury 30 January 1938)^[1] was an English liturgiologist^[2] and author.

Early life and education

He was the second son of Susanna Hatley Frere (1811–1884) and Bishop Christopher Wordsworth,^[3] and a grandson of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[4] His elder sister, Elizabeth Wordsworth, was the founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.^[5]

Wordsworth attended Winchester College, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a fellow of Peterhouse from 1870 to 1878.^[6]

Career

He was ordained in 1872.^[7] In 1874 he married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Andrew Reeve, vicar of Kimmeridge, Dorset.^[6] He served curacies in Alvechurch and St Giles' Church, Cambridge, and incumbencies at Glaston, Tyneham,^[8] East Holme and Marlborough. He was Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral from 1917 to 1928,^[9] and of Salisbury Cathedral from 1917 until his death.^[10] Among other roles he was Master of St Nicholas' Hospital, Harnham, Salisbury from 1895 to 1937, and Librarian of Salisbury Cathedral from 1913 to 1936.^[6]

Selected works

The British Library catalogue has 39 of Wordsworth's works,^[11] including:

• "University Society in the Eighteenth Century", 1874
• "Scholae Academicae", 1877
• "Sarum Breviary" 3 vols, 1879–86
• "Pontificale of St Andrews", 1885
• "Lincoln Cathedral Statutes", 3 vols, 1892–97
• "Coronation of King Charles I and Tracts of Clement Maydeston", 1892–94
• "Mediaeval Services", 1898
• "Sarum Pye and Salisbury Processions", 1901
• "St Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury, Charters", 1903
• "Salisbury Cathedral Statutes", 1915

References

1. "Wordsworth, Christopher". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 26 December 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. "The Living Church, Volume 46" p632: Milwaukee; Young Churchman Co; 1911
3.   One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wordsworth, Christopher". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 825.
4.   One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Wordsworth, Christopher". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
5. "Wordsworth, Dame Elizabeth [pseud. Grant Lloyd] (1840–1932), college head". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37024. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 30 September 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752-1900 Vol. vi. Square–Zupitza, (1954) p579
7. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1447: London: University Press, 1929
8. Wright, Patrick (2005). The Village That Died for England. Faber & Faber, Limited. ISBN 978-0-571-21441-9.
9. 'Canon Wordsworth' The Times (London, England), 31 January 1938, Issue 47906, p.14
10. "Daly, Henry Varian". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 15 December 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. "Author search: Wordsworth, Christopher, 1848–1938". British Library. Retrieved 14 February 2021.