Frank Theodore Woods

Frank Theodore Woods (15 January 187427 February 1932) was a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Peterborough from 1916 to 1923 before being translated to the See of Winchester, where he remained until his death. Family and education He was the son of Frank Woods (a priest) and a grandson of the civil engineer Edward Woods. His mother, Alice Fry, was a granddaughter of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. His brother Edward was Bishop of Lichfield from 1937 to 1953 and was the father of the photographer Janet Woods, Samuel Woods, an archdeacon in New Zealand; Frank Woods, Archbishop of Melbourne; and Robin Woods, Bishop of Worcester. Theodore himself was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ministry He was made deacon on Trinity Sunday 1897 (13 June) at Chichester Cathedral, and ordained priest the following Trinity Sunday (5 June 1898) at Brighton Parish Church — both times by Ernest Wilberforce, Bishop of Chichester. After a curacy in Eastbourne he held incumbencies in Huddersfield, Brixton, Kersal, Bishop Auckland and Bradford. He was consecrated a bishop on St Matthew's Day 1916 (21 September), by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey, to serve as Bishop of Peterborough. While Bishop of Peterborough, Woods served as episcopal secretary for the 1920 Lambeth Conference.