Alex Wood (bishop)

Alex Wood (1871 – May 1937) was an Anglican bishop in India from 1919 to 1937.

He was born in 1871, educated at Aberdeen University and Edinburgh Theological College[1] and ordained in 1895.[2] His first post was a curacy at St John's Forfar.[3] He was at the Scottish Episcopalian Mission at Chanda from 1898 to 1919,[4] a period of service interrupted by World War I service as a temporary Chaplain to the Forces.[5] In 1919 he became Bishop of Chota Nagpur and in 1926 was translated to Nagpur. He died in post on May 1937,[6] his predecessor writing his biography.[7]

References
  1. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  2. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  3. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
  4. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 270.
  5. For which he was awarded the OBE- Who was Who (ibid)
  6. The Times Obituary: The Bishop of Nagpur Friday 21 May 1937: pg 16: Issue 47,690; Col C
  7. Open Library


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