Christopher Wordsworth (liturgiologist)

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

He was the son of Bishop Christopher Wordsworth[4] and grandson of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.[5] Wordsworth graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge; and was a fellow of Peterhouse from 1870 to 1878.[6] He was ordained in 1872.[7] He served curacies in Alvechurch and Cambridge and incumbencies at Glaston, Tyneham,[8] East Holme and Marlborough. He was Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral from 1917 to 1928;[9] and of Salisbury Cathedral from 1917 until his death.[10]

Notes
  1. Amongst others he wrote "University Society in 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; and "York Horae"[3]

References
  1. "Wordsworth, Christopher". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 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. British Library web site accessed 12:07GMT Wednesday 26 September 2018
  4.  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 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  5.  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.
  6. 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
  7. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1447: London: University Press, 1929
  8. Wright, Patrick (2005). The Village That Died for England. Faber & Faber, Limited. ISBN 978-0-571-21441-9.
  9. 'Canon Wordsworth' The Times (London, England), 31 January 1938, Issue 47906, p.14
  10. "Daly, Henry Varian". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 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)


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