Christopher Wordsworth (born Westminster, 26 March 1848; died Salisbury 30 January 1938) was an English liturgiologist"The Living Church, Volume 46" p632: Milwaukee; Young Churchman Co; 1911 and author.
Early life and education He was the second son of Susanna Hatley Frere (1811–1884) and Bishop Christopher Wordsworth, and a grandson of Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His elder sister, Elizabeth Wordsworth, was the founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Wordsworth attended Winchester College, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a fellow of Peterhouse from 1870 to 1878.Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752-1900 Vol. vi. Square–Zupitza, (1954) p579
Career He was ordained in 1872.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p1447: London: University Press, 1929 In 1874 he married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Andrew Reeve, vicar of Kimmeridge, Dorset. He served curacies in Alvechurch and St Giles' Church, Cambridge, and incumbencies at Glaston, Tyneham, East Holme and Marlborough. He was Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral from 1917 to 1928,'Canon Wordsworth' The Times (London, England), 31 January 1938, Issue 47906, p.14 and of Salisbury Cathedral from 1917 until his death. Among other roles he was Master of St Nicholas' Hospital, Harnham, Salisbury from 1895 to 1937, and Librarian of Salisbury Cathedral from 1913 to 1936.
Selected works The British Library catalogue has 39 of Wordsworth's works, including: "University Society in the Eighteenth Century", 1874 "Scholae Academicae", 1877 "Sarum Breviary" 3 vols, 1879–86 "Pontificale of St Andrews", 1885 "Lincoln Cathedral Statutes", 3 vols, 1892–97 "Coronation of King Charles I and Tracts of Clement Maydeston", 1892–94 "Mediaeval Services", 1898 "Sarum Pye and Salisbury Processions", 1901 "St Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury, Charters", 1903 "Salisbury Cathedral Statutes", 1915
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