WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER (1774-1846), young est brother of the poet, was born on June 9, 1774, and became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1798. He obtained pre ferments through the patronage of Manners Sutton, bishop of Norwich, afterwards (1805) archbishop of Canterbury. In 1810 he published an Ecclesiastical Biography in 6 volumes. On the death of Bishop Mansel, in 1820, he was elected Master of Trinity, and retained that position till 1841. His proposal as vice chancellor (1821) for a Classical Tripos, though then rejected, was adopted in 1822. He died on Feb. 2, 1846, at Buxted. In his Who wrote Ikon
Basilike? (1824), he advocated the authorship of Charles I.; and in 1836 he published, in 4 volumes, a work of Christian Institutes, se lected from English divines. He married in 1804 Miss Priscilla Lloyd (d. 1815), a sister of Charles Lamb's friend Charles Lloyd; and he had three sons, John W. (1805-1839), Charles (q.v.) and Christopher (q.v.) ; the two latter both became bishops, and John, who became a classical lecturer at Trinity College, Cam bridge, was an erudite scholar.