The Venerable Arnold Wood, M.A. (24 October 1918 – 27 April 2007) was Archdeacon of Cornwall[1] from 1981 to 1988.[2]

Wood was educated at Trinity Academy, Halifax and was a Commissioned Officer in the RASC from 1939 to 1949. He worked in engineering at CMI from 1949 to 1963. He studied for ordination at Trinity College, Bristol; and was ordained in 1966.[3] After a curacy at Kirkheaton he held incumbencies at Mount Pellon, Lanreath, and Pelynt. He was Rural Dean of West Wivelshire from 1976 to 1981; and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England from 1985 to 1988. He was also a General Commissioner of Income Tax from 1977 to 1993.

Notes

  1. ^ Christ Church, Pellon
  2. ^ WOOD, Ven. Arnold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 9 July 2017
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
Church of England titles Preceded byPeter Young Archdeacon of Cornwall 1981–1988 Succeeded byRaymond Ravenscroft


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