OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1209, 18 August 1911, Page 7

OBITUARY.

. 4 THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, August 17. V The death is announced of tho Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. JOIIII Wordsworth) at the age of ÜB.

The Right Rev. John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury, was the eldest son of l)r. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D., Bishop of Lincoln, and great nephew oi' the poet Wordsworth, ile was born at Harrow in 1813, and was educated at Ipswich, at Winchester", and at New College, Oxford, ot' which society he was a scholar, lie obtained a first class in classical moderations iu ISO 3, nnd graduated B.A. with a second class in the final classical school in ISO"). He won tho prize for a. Latin essay 011 "Thueydides et Tacitus inter se comparati" in ISGG; was elected Craven University scholar in ISG7; and proceeded M.A. (Brascnose College) in IBUS. He received the degree of D.D. by diploma in ISSS. He received tho honorary degree of LL.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, in IR'JO, and the honorary dc{ ■ rec of D.D. of Berjic in ISO-. lie was ordained deacon in ISG7 and priest in ISG'J. In ISGG he became an assistant'niastcr at Wellington College, and in 18G7 was elected fellow, and iu 18GS tutor, of Brasenoso College, Oxford. Ho was prebendary of Laugford Ecclesia in Lincoln Cathedral from IS7O (o 18S3; select preacher at Oxford from 157.5 to 1577, and again from ISSS to lSSll; Grinfidd Lecturer ou the Septuagiut from IS7G to 1S78; University preacher at Whitehall in 1780; Bampton Lecturer in 1SS1; chaplain of Brascirose Cjllege, Oxford, and examining chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln; fellow of Oriel College, and Oriel Professor of iIIO Interpretation of liolv Scripture in the University of Oxford, .with a canonry of Rochester annexed, from 18S3 to 1SS"). lie was consecrated Lord Bishop of Salisbury in succession to Dr. Moberly in Westminster Abbey 011 October 28, 1SS"). jt'ho Bishop was'a learned patristic, and liturgical authority, and has also made his mark in (he iieid of classical literature and criticism. He is tho author of a number of works, The ISishon was warmly interested in the Old Catholic movement. He accompanied his father to tho second Old Catholic Congress, held at Cologne in 1572, and was also present nt flio Congress of Colo-no in 1800, mid Lucerne in ISO?. Jle personally visited tho chief centres as well as the leaders of the different Churches 111 Holland, Germany, Austria ' and Switzerland After tho Lambeth Coneroncc ofISSS, ho was appointed to translab the Encyclical Letter into Greek and Latin, and was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury to act as Episcopal adviser to Count Campello and tho Italian Reformers. 11l this capacity he assisted in 10 revision ot (ho Italian Liturgy. The Hisliop was 0110 of Che fiye assessors of Archbishop Benson in tho trial of the Bishop of Lincoln, when his liturgical knowledge proved of considerable assistance to the Court. He was elecfed an honorary fellow of Brascnose College in ISOI. He married iir.-t, in IS7O, Su«nn Esther, only daughter of (he Rev. H O. Cose, Bodley's Librarian at Oxfoni (she died in 1S0J); and secondly, in lS'lfi Mary, daughter of Colonel 'Williams! M.I. of Hndohead, Dorset. The Bishop was therefore a brother-in-law of Bishop 0,1 vesijjninsf Hie bishopric ot Wellington, was oflered and accepted Hie Archdeaconry of Wiltshire, in which position lie Avon Id have been able to relieve Dr. Wordsworth of some of his opis copal duties, for his health had been Jailing lor.sonio moiillis past