John Walker Woodhouse (28 January 1884 – 13 March 1955) was an Anglican suffragan bishop from 1945[1] until 1953.[2]
He was born on 28 January 1884 and educated at Charterhouse[3] and University College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St James, Milton, Portsmouth.[4] He was made deacon in Advent 1910 (18 December), by John Randolph, Bishop suffragan of Guildford, at Farnham Parish Church[5] and ordained priest on St Thomas' Day 1911 (21 December), by Edward Talbot, Bishop of Winchester, at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford.[6] He was a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces from 1915 to 1919. He served at King George Hospital in London, for a short period with the Guards Division in 1915, then back to London before an 8-month attachment to V Army in France and 6 months with the RAF.[7] After service as a World War I chaplain he was then Vicar of St John's, Waterloo Road, Lambeth[8] and after that St George’s, Newcastle upon Tyne. From 1942 to 1945 he was Rural Dean of Huddersfield and finally Bishop of Thetford (and also Archdeacon of Lynn from 1946) from 1945 to 1953. He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1945 (25 July), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[9] He died on 13 March 1955 after a short retirement.
References
edit- ^ New Bishops of Dunwich and Thetford The Times Friday, 22 June 1945; pg. 2; Issue 50175; col D
- ^ Resignation details
- ^ "Woodhouse, John Walker". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 10 September 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Church web site
- ^ "Ordinations on Sunday last". Church Times. No. 2500. 23 December 1910. p. 875. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 29 November 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "Advent ordinations". Church Times. No. 2553. 29 December 1911. p. 892. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 29 November 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ TNA Service Record. WO374/76609
- ^ British History on-line
- ^ "Consecration in Westminster Abbey". Church Times. No. 4305. 27 July 1945. p. 425. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 29 November 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.