The Independent - London, October 26th, 1998
THERE WAS something of the Scholar Gipsy about Christopher Wordsworth, who contributed weekly to the literary pages of the Observer and Guardian for several decades up to the early Nineties. A distinguished and versatile critic with an aphoristic style, he reviewed novels, crime, works on India, the British countryside and virtually anything else that was put his way. An avid spectator sportsman, as well as an expert fly-fisherman, he also reported cricket and rugby with a fond, sceptical humour. When he died peacefully at the age of 83, it was in a living room still piled with newly-arrived...
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