Thomas Wood (bishop of Bedford)
The Rt Rev Claude Thomas Thelluson Wood was an eminent Bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.
He was born on 27 February 1885 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a curacy at Hatfield he spent ten years in the Army Chaplains' Department to the Territorial Army. He received the Military Cross in 1916 for his service during World War I.
He served as vicar at Croydon and Tring and was then successively Rural Dean of Berkhamsted, Archdeacon of St Albans and then Bishop of Bedford. He died on 17 January 1961.
