1. John Wordsworth was an English Anglican bishop and classical scholar.
15 Facts About John Wordsworth
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John Wordsworth was Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1883 to 1885, and Bishop of Salisbury from 1885 to 1911.
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John Wordsworth was born at Harrow on the Hill, to the priest Christopher Wordsworth, nephew of the poet William Wordsworth.
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John Wordsworth was born into a clerical family: his father was to become Bishop of Lincoln, his uncle, Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, and his grandfather, Christopher Wordsworth had been Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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John Wordsworth was a precocious child, the third in a family of seven and the elder of two brothers.
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John Wordsworth's younger brother Christopher was to become a noted liturgical scholar, and his eldest sister Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth was a pioneer of women's higher education and the founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
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John Wordsworth studied at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded a First in Classical Moderations and a Second in Greats.
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John Wordsworth became an Assistant Master at Wellington College in 1866.
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John Wordsworth had already been appointed a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1870 and Whitehall Preacher in 1879.
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Three years into his term of office at Salisbury, Wordsworth inaugurated the Salisbury Church Day School Association.
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John Wordsworth purchased a piece of land adjoining the grounds of the palace and started building in 1889.
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John Wordsworth was married twice, first to Susan Esther Coxe, daughter of the Bodleian librarian Henry Octavius Coxe, who died at the palace in 1894; and then to Mary Anne Frances Williams.
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John Wordsworth undertook three major foreign visits during his episcopacy, the first to New Zealand as he recovered from the death of his first wife, and the others to Sweden in 1909 and to America in 1910.
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John Wordsworth died at the palace on 16 August 1911, working right up to the very end.
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John Wordsworth is buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Britford, near Salisbury.