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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 Bodleian librarian Henry Octavius Coxe, who died at the palace in 1894; and then to Mary Anne Frances Williams (1896). There were ...
Bishop Wordsworth's School is a Church of England boys' grammar school in Salisbury, Wiltshire for boys aged 11 to 18. The school has been amongst the top-performing schools in England, and in 2010 was the school with the best results in the English Baccalaureate .
The school's 27-acre campus [21] is next to Bishop Wordsworth's School, in the southern part of Salisbury Cathedral Close, which at 80 acres (320,000 m 2) is the largest Cathedral Close in Britain. [22] The main school building is the former Bishop's Palace, parts of which date from the building of the cathedral in the 13th century.
Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, the second of five children. [6] His sister, the poet, and diarist Dorothy, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptized together.
He was born at Lambeth on 1 July 1805, the son of Christopher Wordsworth and nephew of William Wordsworth. He was educated at a school at Woodford, Essex, kept by Dr. Holt Okes (1816−20), and at Winchester College (1820−4). In October 1824 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. His university career was distinguished.
The Earl of Abergavenny merchant sailing ship sank off the coast of Weymouth in Dorset in 1805 with the loss of over 200 people.
Opened in 1927 on a site about one mile north of the centre of Salisbury, the school was originally combined with Bishop Wordsworth's School. The two schools have close links. [4] South Wilts gained specialist status in mathematics and computing in 2003, [5] and in 2010 the International School Award. [citation needed] It became an academy in ...
Poore House at Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury is named in honour of his legacy to Salisbury schools. Poore died on 15 April 1237 [19] at the manor of Tarrant Keyneston in Dorset. His tomb was claimed for both Durham and Salisbury, but most likely he was buried in the church at Tarrant Keyneston which was what he had wished. [7]