3-021-660 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. S. A. Walker. 'The Right Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.,...was educated at Winchester, whence he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1830...He was ordained Deacon in 1833...and Priest in 1835...Having held a Fellowship in Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Public Oratorship of the University, he was elected in 1836 to the Head Mastership of Harrow School on the nomination of Dr. Longley, the late Archbishop of Canterbury, to the newly-formed Bishopric of Ripon. In 1844 he was nominated by Sir Robert Peel on behalf of the Crown to a Canon Residentiary in Westminster Abbey, and...in 1865, became Archdeacon of Westminster - an honorary distinction which is conferred on one of the Canons. He has also held since 1850 the Vicarage of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berkshire, a living in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The Canonry is worth £1000 a year and residence, and the Vicarage about £500. Bishop Wordsworth is the author of a large number of classical, historical, and theological works. He is a High Churchman, but strongly opposed to Ritualism and to advances towards Rome'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.