A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Wordsworth, Christopher (bishop)

by John William Cousin

Wordsworth, Christopher (1807-1885).—S. of above, ed. at Camb., took orders and became a Canon of Westminster 1844, and Bishop of Lincoln 1868. He travelled in Greece, and discovered the site of Dodona. His writings include in theology a commentary on the Bible (1856-70), Church History to A.D. 451 (1881-83), and in other fields, Athens and Attica (1836), and Theocritus (1844).