Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (2 May 1816 – 12 October 1869) was an English

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minister, antiquarian, and

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Life

The eldest son of

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the geologist, he was born at

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on 2 May 1816;

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was his younger brother. He was sent in March 1822 to the

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, a private school kept by William Brooke, to whom on 29 September 1828 he was apprenticed for four years. On the expiration of this apprenticeship he worked for a time under his father's supervision, copying armorial bearings and other heraldic devices for

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. He also studied botany, and kept notes, some of which were used by

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. In January 1834 he went as tutor in J. S. Buck's school at

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, and late in the following year he obtained a post in the banking house of Messrs. Gurney at

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. Through the influence of friends at East Dereham he became attracted to the congregational ministry, and on coming of age left Yarmouth and went to study under William Legge at Fakenham, Norfolk, and Robert Drane at Guestwick. In 1838 he entered as a student at the newly established Highbury College, Middlesex, and graduated B.A. London, 17 June 1841. On 27 April 1843 he was publicly recognised pastor of the independent church of Wortwell-with-Harleston in Norfolk. He soon after began to apply himself to literary work, with the friendship of John Childs, head of the printing firm at

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, and acted for a time also as tutor to his grandsons. At the end of 1848 he resigned his pastorate, and, with the view of devoting himself solely to literature, removed to St John's Wood, London, in March 1849. In November 1853 he moved to Bungay to be nearer to his friends the Childs, who were concerned in the production of his larger works, and whom he assisted in many of their undertakings; but in 1858 he returned to the neighbourhood of

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. On 2 July 1860 he was appointed librarian in ordinary to the queen at Windsor Castle. Under the superintendence of the prince consort began the rearrangement of the collection of drawings by the old masters at Windsor. He died at his official residence, Royal Mews,

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, on 12 October 1869; he was succeeded as Royal Librarian by

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. Woodward was elected a

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in 1857.

Family

In 1843 he married Fanny Emma, ninth daughter of Thomas Teulon of Berkeley Street, London, the descendant of a

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family. By her he had three daughters. She died on 30 April 1850, and he married, on 19 August 1851, Emma, seventh daughter of George Barham of Withersdale Hall, Suffolk.

Works

Woodward was author of:
''The History of Wales''
London 850–3 * ''The Natural History of the Year'' (originally issued in the ''Teacher's Offering'', 1851), London, 1852; 3rd ed. 1863; revised edit. (so called) 1872.
''The History of the United States of North America''
(by W. H. Bartlett as far as vol. i. p. 536), New York 855–6 3 vols. * ''First Lessons on the English Reformation'', London 857 2nd edit. 1860. * ''First Lessons in Astronomy'' (5th edit. rewritten by B. B. Woodward), London 857 * ''First Lessons in the Evidences of Christianity'' (originally issued in the ''Teacher's Offering'', 1858–9), London 860? 2nd edit. 1865.
''A General History of Hampshire''
(as far as p. 317, afterwards carried on by Theodor C. Wilks), London 859–62 * ''Encyclopædia of Chronology'', with

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, who completed it, London, 1872. At the time of his death he was working on a ''Life of Leonardo da Vinci'', which was to have been illustrated from drawings in the royal collection. He also wrote articles and reviews for the ''

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'', Sharpe's ''

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'', the '' Gentleman's Magazine'', and other periodicals. He edited: * ''The History and Antiquities of Norwich Castle'', by his father, 1847. * Barclay's ''Complete Dictionary of the English Language'', new edit. 1851, for which he wrote articles, especially in biography and geography. *

Samuel Maunder Samuel Maunder (1785 – 30 April 1849) was an English writer and composer of many works. He married a sister of William Pinnock, the author of numerous catechisms and educational works. Maunder was the author of several books, most notably ''The ...

's ''Treasury of Knowledge'', new ed. 1859, for which he wrote an English grammar, besides rewriting much of the rest. He also founded and edited '' The Fine Arts Quarterly Review'', which appeared from May 1863 to June 1867. He began a translation of

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's ''La Terre'', which was completed by his brother, Henry Woodward. * as translator, with Henry Woodward as editor
''The Earth: a Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the Globe''
2 vols., 1871 (from the original French of

) ** ''La Terre. Description des phénomènes de la vie du globe'', Paris, Hachette, 1867–1868, 2 vol. (datés 1868–1869), 1554 p. *** t. I, ''Les Continents'', Paris, Hachette, 1867 (daté 1868), 783 p.
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Texte en ligne disponible sur IRIS, 1877 *** t. II, ''L’Océan, l’atmosphère, la vie'', Paris, Hachette, 1868 (daté 1869), 771 p.
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References

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