James Russell Woodford

WOODFORD, James Russell. b. Henley-on-Thames, 30 April 1820; d. Ely, 24 October 1885. The son of a Southwark hop-merchant, Woodford attended Merchant Taylors’ School, London, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA 1842, MA 1845). He took Holy Orders (deacon 1842, priest 1845), working as Second Master at Bishop’s College, Bristol, 1843-45, and then in local parishes: St Saviour’s, Coalpit Heath, 1845-48; St Mark, Easton, 1848-55). He was presented to the living of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, in 1855. In the following year he signed the petition against Archbishop Sumner’s condemnation of the high Tory and ritualist Archdeacon Denison. A noted preacher, he was made an examining chaplain by...