Woodford, James Russell, Dd

Woodford, James Russell, D.D.

an English prelate, was born at Henley-on-Thames, April 30, 1820. He graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1842; was ordained deacon in 1843, and presbyter in 1845; became incumbent at St. Mark's, Easton, near Bristol, in 1847; vicar at Kempsford, Gloucestershire, in 1855; of Leeds in 1868; bishop of Ely in 1873; and died October 24, 1885. He published several volumes of sermons, lectures, etc.