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See also:WORDSWORTH, See also:CHRISTOPHER (1807–1885) , See also:English See also:bishop and See also:man of letters, youngest son of Christopher Wordsworth, See also:Master of Trinity, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3oth of See also:October 1807, and was educated at See also:Winchester and Trinity, See also:Cam-See also:bridge. He, like his See also:brother See also:Charles, was distinguished as an See also:athlete as well as for scholarship. He became See also:senior classic, and was elected a See also:fellow and See also:tutor of Trinity in 1830; shortly afterwards he took See also:holy orders. He went for a tour in See also:Greece in 1832–1833, and published various See also:works on its See also:topography and See also:archaeology, the most famous of which is " Wordsworth's " Greece (1839). In 1836 he became Public Orator at See also:Cambridge, and in the same See also:year was appointed headmaster of See also:Harrow, a See also:post he resigned in 1844. He then became a See also:canon of See also:Westminster, and from 1850 to 1870 he held a See also:country living in See also:Berkshire. In 1865 he was made See also:archdeacon of Westminster, and in 1869 bishop of See also:Lincoln. He died on the loth of See also:March 1885. He was a man of See also:fine See also:character, with a high ideal of ecclesiastical See also:duty, and he spent his See also:money generously on See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:objects. As a See also:scholar he is best known for his edition of the See also:Greek New Testament (1856–186o), and the Old Testament (1864–187o), with commentaries; but his writings were many in number, and included a See also:volume of devotional See also:verse, The Holy Year (1862), Church See also:History up to A.D. 451 (1881–1883), and See also:Memoirs of his See also:uncle the poet (1851), to whom he was See also:literary executor. His Inscriptiones Pompeianae (1837) was an important contribution to See also:epigraphy. He married in 1838 Susanna See also:Hartley See also:Frere (d. 1884), and had a See also:family of seven; the eldest son was See also:John (b. 1843), bishop of See also:Salisbury (1885), and author of Fragments of See also:Early Latin (1874); the eldest daughter, See also:Elizabeth (b. 1840), was the first See also:principal (1879) of See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford.
His See also:Life, by J. H._Overton and Elizabeth Wordsworth, was published in 1888.
End of Article: WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER (1807–1885)
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