WORDSWORTH, CHARLES (1806-1892), Scottish bishop, son of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity, was born in London on Aug. 22, 1806, and educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a brilliant classical scholar, and a famous cricketer and athlete. He was tutor at Christ Church (1834-35) and then second master at Winchester. In 1839 he brought out his Greek Grammar, which had a great success. In 1847, he became warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, the new Scottish Episcopal public school and divinity college, where his views on Scottish Church questions brought him into opposition at some important points to W. E. Gladstone. In 1853 he was
consecrated bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. Wordsworth was a strong supporter of the establishment, but conciliatory towards the Free churches. He was a voluminous writer, and one of the company of revisers of the New Testament (1870-1881), among whom he displayed a conservative tendency. He died at St. Andrews on Dec. 5, 1892.
See his Annals of my Early Life (1891), and Annals of My Life, edited by W. Earl Hodgson (1893) ; also The Episcopate of Charles Wordsworth, by his nephew John, bishop of Salisbury (1899).