Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen

Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792-1836) was a Quaker from Woburn, Bedfordshire. Wiffen opened a school in 1811 at Woburn. In 1813 he published, along with Thomas Raffles and James Baldwin Brown, Poems by Three Friends, followed by Elegiac Lines (1818) and Aonian Hours in 1819. Wiffen’s collection of poems, Julia Alpinala (1820) included a poetic tribute to Wordsworth titled “Sonnet to W. Wordsworth, Esq.” In the summer of 1821 Wiffen was appointed librarian at Woburn Abbey. His translation of Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered appeared in 1824. Near the end of his life he published Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell (1833). See Samuel Rowles Pattison, The Brothers Wiffen: Memoirs and Miscellanies (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1880).