The Rt Rev William Woodcock Hough (19 December 1859 – 8 March 1934) was an Anglican Bishop, the second Bishop of Woolwich from 1918 to 1932.[1]
William Woodcock Hough was born into a medical family, son of the eminent surgeon James Hough, FRCS, JP.[2] He was educated at The Perse School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[3] and began his working life as a school master at Wimborne Grammar School.
In 1885 he was ordained by the Bishop of Salisbury[4] and was appointed to be the Curate at Hampreston.[5] He was then in charge of the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Mission, Old Kent Road for 13 years; Clerical Secretary of the South London Church Fund; Vicar of Lewisham; and Archdeacon of Kingston-upon-Thames before his elevation to the episcopate. He was also Archdeacon of Lewisham from 1919 to 1932
After his death on 8 March 1934,[6] a chapel was erected to his memory at Carshalton.[7]