About Henry Woods
Lived 1822 – 1882 (aged 59–60). Henry Woods was a British politician.
Henry Woods (1822 – 16 May 1882) was an English cotton manufacturer and colliery owner and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1874.
Woods was the son of William Woods of Wigan and his wife Elizabeth Marsden, daughter of Jonathan Marsden. He was a cotton manufacturer at Wigan, and a colliery owner. He was Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Lancashire.
At the 1857 general election Woods was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Wigan. He held the seat until 1874.
Woods died at the age of 59.
Woods married firstly in 1854 Hannah Hindley daughter of Charles Hindley MP of Portland House, Ashton-under-Lyne. She died in 1857 and he married secondly in 1864, Henrietta Emma Gilbert, daughter of Ashurst Gilbert, Bishop of Chichester.
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British Member of Parliament (1822–1882)
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Henry Woods was born in 1822.
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Henry Woods died on 16 May 1882.
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