John Wordsworth
John Wordsworth | |
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Bishop of Salisbury | |
Church | Church of England |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | Salisbury |
In office | 1885–1911 |
Predecessor | George Moberly |
Successor | Frederick Ridgeway |
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Ordination | 1867 |
Consecration | 1885 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1843 Harrow on the Hill, England |
Died | 16 August 1911 | (aged 67–68)
Denomination | Anglicanism |
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Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
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John Wordsworth
Life
He was born at
John Wordsworth was a precocious child, the third in a family of seven and the elder of two brothers. His younger brother
He studied at
in 1870 and Whitehall Preacher in 1879.In 1878, Oxford University Press accepted a proposal from him for the publication of a critical edition of the Vulgate text of the New Testament, which should reproduce, so far as possible, the exact words of Jerome. The enterprise was in progress the rest of his life. As a preliminary to the substantive publication, certain important manuscripts were from 1883 onwards printed in full in the series Old-Latin Biblical Texts. Subsequently, he associated with himself in his work Henry Julian White.[2]
In 1885, at the age of 42, he became Bishop of Salisbury.
Three years into his term of office at Salisbury, Wordsworth inaugurated the Salisbury Church Day School Association. Salisbury had reached a time of educational and political crisis and the Association set about the task of raising the £14,000 necessary to build three new primary schools and to add an infants' department to the existing St Thomas’ School, thus accommodating another 1,121 children. In addition Wordsworth founded his own school at a cost of £3,000, entirely at his own expense. He purchased a piece of land adjoining the grounds of the palace and started building in 1889. Whilst building work was being completed, the bishop started his school in January 1890 in his own palace, the pupils moving to their new building in April 1890 when the new school was officially opened. The school was known at the time as the Bishop's School, being renamed the year after Wordsworth's death as Bishop Wordsworth's School.
Wordsworth was married twice, first to Susan Esther Coxe (1870), daughter of the
A friend, Canon Woodall, remembering a conversation held some years before, recalled: "Some years ago ... when walking with him on the site of the present St Mark's School he said, 'I should like to see Salisbury a great educational centre. I should like to found a school which shall be equal to the greatest and best of our
The school's motto – and his father's epitaph – "Veritas in Caritate" survives him to the present day.
John Wordsworth is buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, Britford, near Salisbury.
Poems
- O God, in whose all-searching eye (1862)[3]
Works
- Wordsworth, John (1874). Fragments and specimens of early Latin. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Wordsworth, John (1883). The Oxford critical edition of the Vulgate New Testament. Oxford.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - The Gospel according to St. Matthew, from the St. Germain ms. (g1), now numbered Lat. 11553 in the National Library at Paris. Old-Latin Biblical Texts 1. John Wordsworth (ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1883.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Portions of the Gospels according to St. Mark and St. Matthew. Old-Latin Biblical Texts 2. John Wordsworth, W. Sanday, H.J. White (eds.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1886.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Nouum Testamentum Domini nostri Iesu Christi Latine, secundum editionem sancti Hieronymi. John Wordsworth, Henry Julian White (eds.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1889–1954.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) (Volume 1, Volume 3) - Nouum Testamentum Latine, secundum editionem sancti Hieronymi. John Wordsworth, Henry Julian White (eds.) (Editio minor ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1911.
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References
- Watson, E.W. (1915). Life of Bishop John Wordsworth. London: Longmans, Green.
- Watson, E. W.; Sinéad Agnew (2004). "Wordsworth, John". In H. C. G. Matthew; B. Harrison (eds.). The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. .
- King's College London College Archives: WORDSWORTH, Rt Rev John (1843–1911)