The son of William Wordsworth, educated at New College, Oxford; he was the rector at rector of Moresby, near Whitehaven (1828), Brigham (1832-75) and Plumblands (1840-75) in Cumberland.

REFERENCES TO John Wordsworth:

Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth [9 July 1803] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 12 March 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth, 2 June 1804 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 1 February 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 29 January 1807 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Samuel Rogers to Henry Rogers, 20 August 1812 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth [22 January 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 5 June [1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 16 June [1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, [30 July 1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 19 October [1830] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, [9 September 1834] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)