Words worth, Right Rev. Christopher

D.D. (Cambridge, 1839), D.C.L. (hon., Oxford, 1870), lord bishop of Lincoln, Church of England; b. at Booking, Oct. 30, 1807; d. at Lincoln, March 21, 1885. He was scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge; chancellor's English medallist for poem, The Druids, 1827-28; Porson prizeman, 1828; Browne's medallist, 1827-28; Craven scholar, 1829; graduated B.A. (senior cla ic) 1830, M.A. 1833; travelled in Greece, 1832-33; was ordained deacon 1833, priest 1835; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1830-36; public orator, 1836; head master of Harrow School, 1836- 44; canon of Westminster, 1844-69; Hulsean lecturer, Cambridge, 1847-48; vicar of Stanford in-the-Vale, Berks hire, and rural dean, 1850-69 archdeacon of Westminster, 1865-69; consecrated bishop, 1869. He took part in the Old-Catholic Congre held at Cologne, September, 1872. He was the author of Athens and Attica: Journal of <x Residence there, London, 1836, 4th ed. 1869; In script i ones Pompeiance: Ancient Writings copied from the Walls of the City of Pompeii, 1837, 2d ed. 1838; Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, 1839, 8th ed. by H. F. Tozer, 1883; Preces selectee, 1841; The Correspondence of Richard Bentley, D.D., with Notes, 1842, '2 vols.; On Church Extension, Theophilus Anglicanus; or, Instructions concerning the Church and the Anglican Branch of it, etc., 1843, 9th ed. 1865 (French trans., Paris, 1861); Catechetual Questions, 1844; Theocritus (edited), Cambridge, 1844, 2d ed. 1877; Discourses on Public Education, London, 1844; Diary in France, 1845, 2d ed. 1846; Defence of the Queen's Supremacy, 1846; Letters to M. Gondon on the Destructive Character of the Church of Rome, both in Religion and Polity, 1847, 3d ed. 1848; Sequel to the Previous Letters, 2 editions, 1848; Scripture Inspiration; or, On the Canon of Holy Scripture (Hulsean Lectures for 1847), 1848, 2d ed. 1851; On the Apocalypse; or, Book of Revelation (Hulsean Lecture for 1848), 1849, 3d ed. 1852; Harmony of the Apocalypse, 2d ed. 1852; The Apocalypse in Greek, with MSS. Coll., etc., 1849; Manual for Confirmation, 1849; Memoirs of William Words worth, 1851, 2 vols.; S. Hippolytus and the Church of Rome in the Third Century, frvm the newly discovered " Philosophumena," 1853, new edition, 1880; Notes at Paris, 1854; Tour in Italy, 1863, 2 vols., 2d ed. 1863; The Greek New Testament, with Prefaces, Introductions, and Notes, 1856-60, 4 parts, 2d ed. 1872 occasional sermons preached in Westminster Abbey, 1850-68 (On Baptism, On Calvin ism, On Sece ions to Rome, Secular Education, Use of Catechisms and Creeds in Education, On an Education Rate, On the History of the Church of Ireland, On National Sins and Judgments, On the Religious Census, On an Increase in the Episcopate, On Tithes, On Church Rates, On Marriage and Divorce, On the New Romish Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, On Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister, On the Doctrine of the Atonement); Funeral Sermon on Joshua Watson, Esq., D.C.L., Funeral Sermon •on the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, and other single sermons; On the Inspiration of the Bible (five lectures), 1861, 2d ed. 1863; On the Interpretation of the Old <ind New Testaments, 1861, 2d ed. 1863; The Holy Year; or, Original Hymns for Sun days and Holy Days, 1862, 5th ed. 1868; The Old Testament in the Authorized Version, with Notes and Introductions, 1864-71, 6 vols., 2d ed. 1868-72; The An E ay, 1st to 5th ed. 1867; History of the Church of Ireland (eight sermons), 1869; The Maccabees and the Church; or, the History of the Maccabees considered with Reference to the Present State of England and the Universities, 1871, 2d ed. 1876; On the Proce ion of the Holy Spirit, 1872; On the Cologne Congre of Old Catholics, 1872 Fellowships and Endowments, 1872; Twelve Addre es at the Visitation of the Diocese and Cathedral of Lincoln, 1873; On Cremation; On the Millennium; On the Need of a Revision of the New Lectionary; On Confe ion and Absolution; On the State of the Soul after Death; Pastoral to the Wesley ans, 9th ed.; On the Sale of Church Patronage Irenicum Wesleyanum, 1876; Diocesan Addre es at Visitation, 1876; Ethica et Spiritual i a {Extracts from the Fathers, etc.), 1877; The Newton i an System: Its Analogy to Christianity, 1877; Bishop Sanders on's Lectures on Conscience and Law, 1877; Letters to Sir George Prevost, on Sisterhoods and Vows, 1878; Miscellanies Literary and Religious, 1878, 3 vols, (being selections from the bishop's works, with additions); Ten Visitation Addre es, 1879; Translations of the Pastoral Letters of Lambeth Conferences into Greek and Latin, made by Desire of the Presiding Archbishops, 1868 and 1878; On the Duration and Degrees of Future Punishments, 1878, 2d ed.; On the Present Disquietude in the Church, 1881; On the New Revised Version, 1881; A Church History to the Council of Chalcedon, A.D. 481, 1881-83, 4 vols. (vol. i., 3d ed. 1883; vol. ii., 2d ed. 1882; vols. iii. and iv., 2d ed. 1885); Guides and Goads, from the Fath 255 ers, etc., 1883; Conjectural Emendations of Pa ages in Ancient Authors, 1883.