Cecil Wood (bishop)

Cecil John Wood (1874–1957) was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, serving from 1912 to 1919.

Wood was educated at St Peter's College, Oxford and ordained in 1897. He held curacies at High Halden, St Marylebone, and Bethnal Green before becoming Vicar of Wimbledon in 1906. Six years later he became Bishop of Melanesia, serving for seven years. Returning to England he was Rector of Witnesham and then an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Newcastle. He was Rural Dean of Horsham from 1934 to 1940 and then Rector of West Grinstead until retirement in 1946.