WOODS, HENRY GEORGE: Church of Eng land; b. at Wood End, Northamptonshire, June 16, 1542. He was educated at Corpus Christi Col lege, Oxford (B.A., 1865), and was connected with Trinity College, Oxford, as fellow (1865-87), tutor (1866-80), bursar (1865-87), and president (1887 1897), besides being senior proctor of the university in 1877-78. Since 1898 he has been honorary fel low of Trinity. He was ordered deacon in 1866 and ordained priest in the following year. In 1900-04 he was rector of Little Gaddesden, Herts, and chap lain and librarian to Earl Brownlow, Ashridge, and since 1904 has been master of the Temple, London. In theology he is a moderate Broad churchman, and has prepared an annotated edition of the first two books of Herodotus (2 vols., London, 1873).

WOODS, LEONARD: American Congregation alist; b. at Princeton, Mass., June 19, 1774; d. at Andover, Mass., Aug. 24, 1854. He was graduated from Harvard College, 1796; taught for a while, and studied theology at Somers, Conn.; was or dained 1798, and was pastor at. Newbury, Mass., 1798-1808, when he became professor of theology at Andover Seminary, and was made professor emeritus, 1846. He then devoted himself to a History of Andover Seminary, which was published (Boston, 1885), and to preparing his lectures for the press. He was one of the founders of the American Tract Society, the American Education Society, American Temperance Society, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was a champion of orthodox Calvinism against the assaults of Ware, Buckminster, and Channing. His writings embrace Letters to Unitarians (Andover, 1820); Reply to Dr. Ware's Letters to Trinitarians and Calvinists (1821); Remarks on Dr. Ware's An swer (1822); Lectures on the Inspiration of the Scrip tures (1829); Lectures on Infant Baptism (1829); Lectures on Church Government (New York, 1844); Lectures on Swedenborgianism (1846); Theology of the Puritans (Boston, 1851). He published a collective edition of his works (5 vols., Andover, 1849-50; 2d ed., Boston, 1851).

Bibliography: W. B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, ii. 438-444, New York, 1859; A. E. Dunning, Congregationalists in America, passim, ib. 1894; W. Walker, in American Church History Series, iii. 351 sqq., ib. 1894; idem, Ten New England Leaders, pp. 360-405, ib. 1901; F. H. Foster, New England Theology, passim, Chicago, 1907.