English divine and scholar, born at Harrow on the 21st of September 1843, the son of Christopher Wordsworth, afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, and grandnephew of the poet. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, and after a short period as a master at Wellington College was elected a fellow of Brasenose and took orders (1867). He became widely known both as a Latin scholar and as a theologian, being elected Bampton lecturer in 1881 and Ireland professor of exegesis in 1883. In 1883 he became a canon of Rochester and in 1885 Bishop of Salisbury. His works include Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin (1874); Old Latin Biblical Texts (1883 and 1886), Vol. ii., in conjunction with Dr. Sanday and Rev. H. J. White; The Episcopate of Charles Wordsworth (1898); Teaching of the Church of England for Information of Eastern Christians (1900); The Invocation of Saints and the 22nd Article (2nd ed., 1910). He died at Salisbury on the 16th of August 1911.
