WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER Eng lish bishop and man of letters, was born in London on Oct. 3o, 1807, and was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Cambridge. He, like his brother Charles, was distinguished as an athlete as well as for scholarship. He was public orator at Cambridge, Headmaster of Harrow from 1836-44, and bishop of Lincoln in 1869. He died on March 20, 1885. He married in 1838 Susanna Hartley; his eldest son was John, bishop of Salisbury, and author of Fragments of- Early Latin (1874), and his daughter Eliza beth was first principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. As a
scholar he is best known for his edition of the Greek New Testament (1856-60), and the Old Testament (1864-70), with commentaries ; and for his Inscriptiones Pompeianae (1837).
His Life, by J. H. Overton and Elizabeth Wordsworth, was published in 1888.