Benjamin B. Wiffen (1794–1867)

[Benjamin Barron].  English editor, born at Woburn, Bedfordshire, in 1794. He was a student of Spanish literature, and was one of the chief editors and translators of Reformistas Antiguos Españoles; or, The Works of Spanish Reformers Reprinted and Edited (29 vols., 1848–69), treating especially of the reforms of the sixteenth century. He was the author of a volume of Poems and of a Life of Juan de Valdes. His collections are now to be found at Oxford, in the Wadham College library. He died on the 18th of March 1867.