Robert Woodward (priest)

Robert Woodward (9 June 1653 - 13 February 1702) was an Anglican priest in the later decades of the 17th-century and the first of the 18th.

Woodward was born in Salford, Bedfordshire and educated at New College Oxford.[1] He graduated BCL in 1677; and DCL in 1686. He was ordained on 25 September 1681. He was Rector of Pewsey from 1685[2] until his death. Woodward served as Archdeacon of Wilts from 1681 until 1691;[3] and Dean of Salisbury from then until his death.[4]

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Church of England titles
Preceded by
Seth Ward
Archdeacon of Wilts
1681–1691
Succeeded by
Thomas Ward
Preceded by
Thomas Pierce
Dean of Salisbury
15 June 2015–present
Succeeded by
Edward Young


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