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.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
/ref> 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 Ashurst Turner Gilbert (14 May 1786 – 21 February 1870) was an English churchman and academic, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1822 and bishop of Chichester. Life The son of Thomas Gilbert of Ratcliffe, Buckinghamshire, a capta ...

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* 1822 births 1882 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire British textile industry businesspeople Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Wigan {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub