See also:CHARLES See also:WORDSWORTH (1806–1892)
, Scottish See also:bishop, son of See also:Christopher See also:Wordsworth, See also:Master of Trinity, was See also:born in See also:London on the 22nd of See also:August 18o6, and educated at See also:Harrow and See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
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He was a brilliant classical See also:scholar, and a famous cricketer and See also:athlete; he was in the Harrow See also:cricket eleven in the first See also:regular matches with See also:Eton (1822) and See also:Winchester (1825), and is credited with bringing about the first Oxford and See also:Cambridge match in 1827, and the first university See also:boat-See also:race in 1828, in both of which he took See also:part
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He won the See also:Chancellor's Latin See also:verse at Oxford in 1827, and the Latin See also:essay in 1831, and took a first-class in See also:classics
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From 183o to 1833 he had as pupils a number of men (including W
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See also:Manning) who afterwards became famous
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He then travelled abroad during 1833–1834, and after a See also:year's See also:work as See also:tutor at Christ Church (1834–1835) was appointed second master at Winchester
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He had previously taken See also:holy orders, though he only became See also:priest in 1840, and he had a strong religious See also:influence with the boys
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In 1839 he brought out his See also:Greek See also:Grammar, which had a See also:great success
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In 1846, however, he resigned; and then accepted the wardenship of Trinity See also:College, See also:Glenalmond, the new Scottish Episcopal public school and divinity college, where he remained from 1847 to 1854, having great educational success in all respects; though his views on Scottish Church questions brought him into opposition at some important points to W
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Gladstone
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In 1852 he was elected bishop of St See also:Andrews, See also:Dunkeld and See also:Dunblane, and was consecrated in See also:Aberdeen See also:early next year
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He was a strong supporter of the See also:establishment, but conciliatory towards the See also:Free churches, and this brought him into a See also:good See also:deal of controversy
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He was a voluminous writer, and one of the See also:company of revisers of the New Testament (1870-1881), among whom he displayed a conservative tendency
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He died at St Andrews on the 5th of See also:December 1892
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He was twice married, first in 1835 to See also:Charlotte See also:Day (d
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1839), and secondly in 1846 to Katherine See also:Mary See also:Barter (d
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1897)
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He had thirteen See also:children altogether
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See his See also:Annals of my Early See also:Life (1891), and Annals of My Life, edited by W
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See also:Earl See also:Hodgson (1893); also The Episcopate of See also:Charles Wordsworth, by his See also:nephew See also:John, bishop of See also:Salisbury (1899)
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