Author: Woods, George
Biography:
WOODS, George (1808-95: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 12 Oct. 1808 and baptised on 2 Nov. at St. Magnus the Martyr, Lower Thames Street, City of London, the eldest son of George Woods, of Settle, Yorkshire, and Cheapside, London, and Mary Anne Browne, who had married at her parish, St. Mary, Lambeth, on 23 Nov. 1805. John Holland, in Poets of Yorkshire (1845), states that he was born at Settle or nearby Giggleswick and that his father was “a respectable paper-maker at Settle.” He went to Giggleswick Grammar school and later dedicated the volume listed here to his headmaster, Rev. Rowland Ingram. It was written and printed in Barnsley before he went up to Queen’s College, Oxford (matric. 1829). He migrated to University College, Oxford (Scholar 1830-37; BA 1833, MA 1835). He was also briefly a student at Lincoln’s Inn in 1831 but opted for a career in the church. He was ordained deacon in 1834 and priest in 1835. He became assistant curate at St. Mary’s, Barnsley (1834-38) and combined this with teaching. He was appointed master of Gainsborough Grammar school, Lincolnshire, in 1839 but later became Chaplain to the British Embassy in Vienna (1842-7) on a salary of £300 p.a. After his return to Britain, he was Rector of Sully, Glamorgan (1848-86). He was appointed rural dean of Llandarf in 1868 and from 1886 until his death was Chancellor of Llandarf Cathedral, a post he held in conjunction with a number of other curacies and rectorships. He married Ellen King (1814-91) on 7 Jan. 1840 at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London. They went on to have nine children. He died on 24 Mar. 1895 at Brook House, Penrow, near Newport, Monmouthshire, leaving an estate of just over £7000. (ancestry.co.uk 30 Jul. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 30 Jul. 2022; CCEd 30 Jul. 2022; Ashworth Peter Burke, Family Records [1897], 639; Newsam, 185-6; G. E. Biber, The English Church on the Continent [1846], 54-5; LES 9 Jan. 1840, 27 Mar. 1895) AA
Other Names:
- George Woods, Jr.