3-053-748 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Rev. J. R. Woodford, D.D., the new Bishop of Ely, 1873. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Russell and Sons. 'The successor in the see of Ely to Dr. E. Harold Browne, now translated to Winchester, is the Rev. James Russell Woodford, D.D., Hon. Canon of Christ Church, Vicar of Leeds, Rural Dean, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and Examining Chaplain to the late Bishop of Winchester. Dr. Woodford was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Sen. Opt. and Second Class Classical Tripos 1842. He was formerly Perpetual Curate of St. Mark's, Easton; afterwards, in 1858, Vicar of Kempsford; Select Preacher, 1864, 1867, and 1872; and Vicar of Leeds, in succession to Dr. Atlay, created Bishop of Hereford in 1868. He was formerly a proetor for the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol in the Convocation of Canterbury, and more recently in the Convocation of York for the diocese of Ripon. With reference to the Bishopric of Ely, the present income of that see is £5500 per annum, with a house in town, in addition to the palace at Ely'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.