Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wordsworth, William (1)

by Joseph Foster

Wordsworth, William, created D.C.L. 12 June, 1839, of Rydal Mount and Sockbridge, Westmoreland, distributor of stamps for the county 1813, poet laureate 1843-50 (2s. John, of Sockbridge, attorney-at-law), born at Cockermouth 7 April, 1770, died at Rydal Mount 23 April, 1850, father of John 1823.