Wiffen, BENJAMIN BARRON

Wiffen, BENJAMIN BARRON (1794–1867), was born at Woburn, Bedfordshire, of Quaker parentage, and devoted himself to the editing and reprinting of the writings of early Spanish Reformers, his works (1848–69) numbering twenty-nine, and his valuable collections being now in the library of Wadham College, Oxford.—His brother, JEREMIAH HOLME WIFFEN (1792–1836), librarian to the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, translated Garcilaso de la Vega, Tasso, &c.