Thomas Wood (bishop of Bedford)
The Rt Rev Claude Thomas Thelluson Wood MC (27 February 1885 – 17 January 1961) was an eminent Bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.
He was born on 27 February 1885 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] After a curacy at Hatfield he spent ten years in the Army Chaplains' Department to the Territorial Army. He received the Military Cross in 1916 for his service during World War I.[2]
He served as vicar at Croydon and Tring and was then successively Rural Dean of Berkhamsted, Archdeacon of St Albans[3] and then Bishop of Bedford. He died on 17 January 1961.
Notes
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ "No. 29608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1916.
- ^ The Times, Monday, 24 Aug 1942; pg. 6; Issue 49322; col B "Ecclesiastical News: New Archdeacon Of St. Albans"
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