Wordsworth family of Cambridge

Christopher Wordsworth (1774-1846) was the youngest son of John Wordsworth (1741-1783) and Anne (nee Cookson, 1747-1778). Educated at Hawkshead grammar school; pensioner of Trinity College Cambridge. BA 1796; Fellow of Trinity 1798. MA. 1799; DD (by royal mandate) 1810. Rector of Ashby with Oby & Thinne, Norfolk, 1804; domestic chaplain to Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1805; Rector of Woodchurch, Kent, 1806; Dean and Rector of Bocking, Essex, 1808; Co-founder of the National Society, 1811; Rector of Monks-Eleigh, Suffolk, 1812. Rector of St Mary Lambeth, Surrey, and Sundridge, Kent, 1816; Speaker's Chaplain, 1817. Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1820, exchanging Lambeth & Sundridge for Buxted with Uckfield, Sussex. Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, 1820-1 and 1826-7. Resigned Mastership 1841, retired to Buxted, Sussex.

Married Priscilla Lloyd (d.1815); 3 sons: John (1805-1839); Charles (1806-1892); Christopher (1807-1885). Publications include, Ecclesiastical Biography, (1810), sermons and tracts.

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