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WILTS OBITUAEY. 

 Right Rev. John Wordsworth, D.D., Bishop of 



Salisbury. Died suddenly August 16th, 1911, aged 68. Buried at 

 Britford. Born at Harrow, Sept. 21, 1843, eldest son of Christopher 

 Wordsworth, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, and Susanna, d. of 

 George Frere, of Twyford House, Herts. Educated at Ipswich, Win- 

 chester, and New Coll., Oxon (scholar). Won the Latin Essay, 1866, 

 and Craven Scholarship, 1867. B.A. 1865, M.A. 1868, Deacon 1867, 

 Priest 1869 (Oxford), Assistant-Master at Wellington 1866. Fellow 

 and Chaplain of Brasenose Coll., 1868. Prebendary of Lincoln and 

 Examining Chaplain to his father, 1870. Grinfield Lecturer on the 

 Septuagint 1876—78. University Preacher at Whitehall 1879. Select 

 Preacher at Oxford 1875—7, 1888—90. Bampton Lecturer, 1881. 

 Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture and Canon of 

 Rochester 1883 — 85. Bishop of Salisbury 1885 until his death. Married, 

 first, Susan Esther, d. of the Rev. H. O. Coxe, Bodley's Librarian, who 

 died 1894 ; and secondly, 1906, Mary. d. of Col. Robert Williams, M.P., 

 of Bridehead, Dorset, who, with her four sons and two daughters, 

 survives him. 



He was D.D. of Oxford, Hon. LL.D. of Dublin (1890), Hon. D.D. of 

 Berne (1892), and a Member of the British Academy. 



His father (Christopher) was Bishop of Lincoln ; his grandfather 

 (Christopher), Master of Trinity, Cambs. ; his uncle (Charles), Bishop 

 of St. Andrew's ; 'his great uncle (William), the famous poet. The l\mes^ 

 August 18th, 1911, had a leading article on the persistent type of 

 character and learning in the Wordsworth family for three generations, 

 and a long obituary notice on August 17th, in which, while his great 

 abilities and his " eminence in more ways than one " were fully recog- 

 nised, what seems, to many who knew him, a less than fair recognition 

 of the practical side of his character was shown. He was acknowledged 

 as the most learned bishop on the bench, and as one of the first Latin 

 scholars in Europe. Indeed in Liturgiology, Church history, and some 

 branches of Theology, he had a European reputation, and probably 

 few English Bishops have been so well known outside the British 

 Empire. His most monumental literary work, in which he was occupied 

 for years, both before and after he became Bishop, for the latter part 

 in co-operation with the Rev. H. J, White, was the revision of the text 

 of the Vulgate, of which the Four Gospels were published in parts from 

 1889 to 1898. He was especially interested in such questions as the 

 status of the Lutheran and the Swedish Churches, and in such move- 

 ments as that of the Old Catholics upon the Continent. Only a year 

 before his death he had delivered in America a series of lectures on the 

 History of the Church of Sweden, which has become a recognised 

 authority on the subject in Sweden itself, and in order to do this he 

 mastered the Swedish language, previously unknown to him, in the 



