Woods, Frank

More sources of Information about Frank Woods
- Book “Frank Woods”, Archbishop of Melbourne 1957-77 by Brian Porter, published by Trinity College, Melbourne, 2007.
- Book “Kingdom Come”, author Peter Hollingworth, released in 1992.
Frank Woods followed Joseph John Booth as Archbishop of Melbourne in 1957 and was also Primate of Australia 1971-77. The Wood’s family arrived in Australia on December 11th 1957 and he was the last Englishman to lead Melbourne’s Anglicans. The Most Reverend Frank Woods KBE, MA(Cantab.) , DD(Lambeth), LL.D(Hon) (Monash) was born April 6th, 1907 and died November 29th, 1992
From his obituary “Sir Frank was born on 6 April 1907 and studied at Cambridge University. Ordained a deacon in 1931 and ordained a priest a year later, his first appointment was as Curate of St Mary’s in Portsea, England. In 1933, he returned to Cambridge as Chaplain of Trinity College, before being appointed vice-principal of Wells Theological College.
He served for a year as an army chaplain in France, where he was present at the evacuation of Allied Troops from Dunkirk, and later in Egypt, before being appointed commandant of the Army Chaplains Training School in England.
In 1951, he was appointed chaplain to King George V1. On 2 February 1952, four days before the king’s death, he was consecrated a Bishop by the Archbishop of York, assisted by Sir Frank’s father. Sir Frank was a suffragan (assistant) Bishop of Middleton until he moved to Australia in 1957. Sir Frank was enthroned as Melbourne’s eighth Anglican leader in St Paul’s Cathedral on 17th December 1957”
Herald-Sun, November 30th 1992, page 2, “The former Archbishop was knighted in 1972 but never liked to use his title”