About Sam Woodhouse
Lived 1912 – 1995 (aged 83). Sam Woodhouse was a British presbyter.
Samuel Mostyn Forbes Woodhouse (28 April 1912 – 13 October 1995) was an English Anglican priest who became the Archdeacon of London.
He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 28 April 1912, educated at Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Oxford and ordained in 1937. He was a curate at Lancaster Priory and then, during World War II, a chaplain to the British Armed Forces he was mentioned in dispatches three times. When peace returned he was vicar of Holy Trinity, South Shore, Blackpool then rural dean of Leominster. In 1957 he became rector of St Stephen's Bristol and after a decade there became the Archdeacon of London.
He retired in 1978 and died on 13 October 1995.
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Archdeacon of London
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Sam Woodhouse was born on 28 April 1912.
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Sam Woodhouse died on 13 October 1995.
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Sam Woodhouse was a presbyter.
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