Wood ford, Right Rev. James Russell

D.D. (by Archbishop of Canterbury, 1869), lord bishop of Ely, Church of Scotland; b. at Henley-on- Thames, April 30, 1820; d. at Ely, Oct. 24, 1885. He was late scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (senior optime and second-cla cla ical tripos) 1842, M. A. 1845; ordained deacon 1843, priest 1845; was second master of Bishop College, Bristol, 1843-45; perpetual curate of St. Saviour's, Coalpit Heath, 1845-48; of St. Mark's, Eastern, Bristol, 1848-55; vicar of Kemps ford, Gloucester, 1855-68; examining chaplain to the late bishop (Wilberforce) of Oxford and Winchester, 1868-73; vicar of Leeds, 1868-73; select preacher at Cambridge, 1864, 1867, 1873, 1875, 1878; honorary chaplain to the Queen, and honorary canon of Christ Church, 1867; consecrated bishop, 1873. He was the author of The Church Past and Present (four lectures), 1852; Sermons, London, 1873, 3 vols.; Six Lectures on the Creed, 1855; Occasional Sermons, 1856-61, 2 series, 2d ed. 1861-65; Ordination Lectures, Oxford, 1861; Christian Sanctity (four sermons), Cambridge, 1863; Ordination Sermons, 1872.