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Thomas Wood (bishop of Bedford)

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Name
  
Thomas Wood

Role
  
Chaplain

Died
  
1961


Education
  
Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge

The Rt Rev Claude Thomas Thelluson Wood MC (27 February 1885 – 17 January 1961) was an eminent Bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.

He was born on 27 February 1885 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a curacy at Hatfield he spent ten years in the Army Chaplains' Department to the Territorial Army. He received the Military Cross in 1916 for his service during World War I.

He served as vicar at Croydon and Tring and was then successively Rural Dean of Berkhamsted, Archdeacon of St Albans and then Bishop of Bedford. He died on 17 January 1961.

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