RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
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bered for his Ecclesiastical Biography; or, Lives of Eminent Men connected with the History of Religion in England from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution (London, 1810, 6 vols.; 4th ed., 1858, 4 vols.), and for his Who Wrote EIKQN BAXI- AIKH? (1824), a defense of King Charles’ claim to be the author of Hikon Basilike. 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 son of the preceding, bishop of Lincoln, and commentator; b. at Bocking (38 m. n.e. of London) Oct. 30, 1807; d. at Lincoln Mar. 21, 1885. He was educated at Winchester and at Trinity 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 orator (1836); head master of Harrow School (1836- 1844); canon of Westminster (1844-69); Hulsean lecturer, Cambridge (1847-48); vicar of Stanfordin-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 extreme courage in carrying out his convictions; he caused a violent conflict with the Wesleyan Methodists 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 ofja 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 Aitica: Journal of a Residence there (London, 1836); Inscriptiones Pompetane: Ancient Writings copied from the Walls of the City of Pompew (1837); Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical (1839; 8th ed., 1883); Theophilus 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 Destructive Character of the Church of Rome both in Religion and Polity (1847); Sequel to the Previov Letters (1848); Scripture Inspiration; or, On the Canon of Holy Scripture (Hulsean 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. Hippolytus 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 Sundays 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 Wesleyanum (1876); Diocesan Addresses at Visitation
(1876); Ethica 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 Visitation (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 Chalcedon, 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).
8. Historian; b. at Westminster, London, Mar. 26, 1848. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1870), and was ordered deacon in 1871 and ordained priest in the following year; was fellow 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, Rutlandshire (1877— 1889), Steeple with Tyneham, Dorsetshire (1889- 1897), East Holme, Isle of Purbeck, Dorsetshire (1890-97), and since 1897 of St. Peter with St. Paul, Marlborough. He has also been prebendary of Liddington 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 Highteenth Century (Cambridge, 1874); Schole Academice: Some Account of the Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century (1877); Breviarium ad Usum Sarum (in collaboration with F. Procter; 3 vols., 1879-86); Pontificale Ecclesie Sancti Andree (Edinburgh, 1885); Lincoln Cathedral Statutes (3 vols., London, 1892-97); Coronation of King Charles I. (1892); Tracts of Clement Maydeston (1894); Notes on Medieval Services in England (1898); Ceremonies and Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901); Old Service-Books of the English Church (in collaboration with H. Littlehales; 1904); and Precedence of English Bishops and the Provincial Chapters (1906).
BrstiograpHy: On 1; Charles Wordsworth, Annals of my Early Life, London, 1891; E. Churton, Memoir of Joshua Watson, Oxford, 1861; DNB, lxiii. 7-8. On 2: J. H. Overton and Elizabeth Wordsworth, Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, London, 1888; J. H. Overton, The Church in England, ii. 399, 401, 415, ib. 1897; F. W. Cornish, English Church in the 19th Century, passim, ib.
1910; E. Stock, English Church in the 19th Century, passim, ib. 1910; DNB, Ixiii. 9-10.
WORDSWORTH, JOHN: Church of England, bishop of Salisbury; b. at Harrow-on-the-Hill (11 m. n.w. of London), Middlesex, Sept. 21, 1843; d. in London Aug. 16, 1911. He was educated at New College, Oxford (B.A., 1863; M.A., 1868), and was ordered deacon in 1867 and ordained priest two years later; was assistant master of Wellington College (1866-67); was elected fellow of Brasenose College (1867), was tutor (1868-83); also prebendary of Langford Ecclesia in Lincoln Cathedral (1870-83), as well as chaplain of Brasenose College and examining chaplain to the bishop of Lincoln (his father); select preacher at Oxford (1875-77 and 1888-90), Grinfeld Lecturer on the Septuagint (1876-78), university preacher at Whitehall (1879), and Bampton Lecturer (1881); Oriel professor of
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