Hugh Wood (priest) explained

Hugh Singleton Wood, KHC (1859–1941) was a Church of England priest and Royal Navy chaplain. He was the Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy, serving from 1906^[1] to 1917.^[2]

Wood was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating in 1878 and graduating B.A. in 1882. and ordained in 1884. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill. He then served with the Navy from 1886 to 1917. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1910 to 1936.^[3]

He died on 8 March 1941.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Naval And Military Intelligence The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jul 18, 1906; pg. 5; Issue 38075
2. ‘WOOD, Rev. Hugh Singleton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 29 May 2017
3. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34306/supplement/4665/data.pdf London Gazette
4. Obituary The Rev Dr H.S. Wood The Times (London, England), Saturday, Oct 11, 1941; pg. 6; Issue 49054