Christopher Wordsworth (liturgiologist)

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

He was the second son of Bishop Christopher Wordsworth[3] and a grandson of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] Wordsworth attended Winchester College, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a fellow of Peterhouse from 1870 to 1878.[5]

He was ordained in 1872.[6] In 1874 he married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Andrew Reeve, vicar of Kimmeridge, Dorset.[5] He served curacies in Alvechurch and Cambridge and incumbencies at Glaston, Tyneham,[7] East Holme and Marlborough. He was Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral from 1917 to 1928,[8] and of Salisbury Cathedral from 1917 until his death.[9] 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.[5]

Selected works

The British Library catalogue has 39 of Wordsworth's works,[10] 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. ukwhoswho.com. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 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. 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
  6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1447: London: University Press, 1929
  7. Wright, Patrick (2005). The Village That Died for England. Faber & Faber, Limited. ISBN 978-0-571-21441-9.
  8. 'Canon Wordsworth' The Times (London, England), 31 January 1938, Issue 47906, p.14
  9. "Daly, Henry Varian". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 15 December 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. "Author search: Wordsworth, Christopher, 1848-1938". British Library. Retrieved 14 February 2021.


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