Cecil Wood (bishop)

Cecil John Wood (1874 – 27 April 1957)[1] was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, serving from 1912 to 1919.[2]

Wood was educated at St Peter's College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1897. He held curacies at High Halden,[4] St Marylebone, and Bethnal Green before becoming Vicar of Wimbledon in 1906. Six years later he became Bishop of Melanesia,[5] serving for seven years. He resigned his See effective 31 December 1918.[6]

Returning to England he was Rector of Witnesham,[7] 1919–1924; and undertook occasional episcopal duties, including as archbishop's commissary (i.e. acting diocesan bishop) in 1921.[8] He was then appointed Vicar of Jesmond and an Assistant Bishop of Newcastle from 1924[9] to 1933.[10] He was Rural Dean of Horsham from 1934 to 1940 and then Rector of West Grinstead until retirement in 1946.

He married Margorie Allen Bell, the sister of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester (1929–58).[11] He died in 1957, aged 82.[10]

References
  1. The Times, Tuesday, Apr 30, 1957; pg. 13; Issue 53828; col D Obituary The Rt. Rev. C. J. Wood
  2. Project Canterbury
  3. "Who was Who" 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X.
  4. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  5. Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop Of Malanesia. The Times Wednesday, Feb 28, 1912; pg. 6; Issue 39833; col A
  6. "The Mission Field. Melanesia". Church Times. No. 2928. 7 March 1919. p. 215. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  7. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1669.
  8. "Ordinations". Church Times. No. 3046. 10 June 1921. p. 549. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  9. "Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Bishop Cecil Wood". Church Times. No. 3194. 11 April 1924. p. 441. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  10. "Clerical Obituary". Church Times. No. 4916. 3 May 1957. p. 15. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
  11. "Obituary: Barbara Whitley". Church Times. No. 8233. 1 January 2021. p. 23. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.


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