Christopher Wordsworth
WORDSWORTH, Christopher. b. Lambeth, London, 30 October 1807; d. Harewood, Yorkshire, 21 March 1885. He was brought up at Bocking, Essex, where his father was then rector, and from 1816 at Sundridge, Kent. He was a nephew of the poet William Wordsworth*, and became one of his literary executors and his first biographer. He was educated at Winchester, where he was outstanding both as a scholar and an athlete, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained many academic distinctions, becoming Fellow of Trinity College on graduating in 1830. In 1832-33 he travelled in Greece. He took Holy Orders (deacon, 1833, priest 1835), and in 1836 was appointed Public Orator of Cambridge University...
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