Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, (December 30, 1792 - May 2, 1836) was an English Quaker poet and hispanist.
He was the librarian of Lord John Russell, sixth Duke of Bedford, Lord Holland's protégé, at Woburn Abbey since 1821. Suggested by his brother, also a Spanish-born Benjamin B. Wiffen, he began to translate Garcilaso's works into English. Vega and published in 1823 dedicated to the Duke, as well as the liberated Jerusalem of Torcuato Tasso in 1824, dedicated to the wife of the Duke, Georgina, with the title Jerusalem Delivered: an Epic Poem in Twenty Songs: Translated Into English Spenserian Verse from the Italian of Tasso: Together with a Life of the Author, Interspersed with Translations of His Verses to the Princess Leonora of This. In the list of subscribers include Walter Scott, Thomas Lawrence and Ugo Foscolo among others. In 1833 he published his genealogical research on his patron with the title of The Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell. Some verses and his translations appear in The Brothers Wiffen (1880) and in Poems by three friends (1813), which includes works by Wiffen, Brown and Raffles. Other works of his are Verses written on the Alameda at Ampthill Park (1827), Appeal for the injured African (1833), and Verses written in the portico of the temple of liberty at Woburn Abbey, on placing before the statues of Locke and Erskine , in the summer of 1835 (1836), but most of his poems are scattered by the magazines of the time, among them translations of verses by Francisco de la Torre, letrillas by Luis de Góngora and the Song to the ruins of Itálica de Rodrigo Caro. Prematurely deceased, his wife Mary died in 1849.
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