Hugh Wood (priest)
Appearance
Hugh Singleton Wood, DD, KHC (1859- 1941) was a Church of England priest and Royal Navy chaplain. He was the Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy, serving from 1906[1] to 1917.[2]
Berry was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1884. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill. He then served with the Navy from 1886 to 1917. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1910 to 1936.[4]
He died on 8 March 1941.[5]
Footnotes
- ^ Naval And Military Intelligence The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jul 18, 1906; pg. 5; Issue 38075
- ^ ‘WOOD, Rev. Hugh Singleton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 29 May 2017
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses (1715–1886): Surnames beginning S-Z p1598 online version
- ^ London Gazette
- ^ Obituary The Rev Dr H.S. Wood The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 11, 1941; pg. 6; Issue 49054