Isaac Wood (priest)

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Isaac Wood (11 May 1795 - 7 June 1865) was Archdeacon of Chester from his installation on 23 February 1847 [1] until his death. [2]

Wood was born in Chester and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. [3] He was ordained deacon in 1818 and priest in 1819. He held the living of Middlewich for many years [4] and is buried in the churchyard there. [5]

Notes

  1. Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M.; Mussett, Patrick (2004), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 11, pp. 45–47
  2. 'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, June 17, 1865; Issue 8482.
  3. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates– and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. vi. Square – Zupitza, (1954) p558
  4. National Archives
  5. photo of his grave


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