SIR

See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

ALBERT

See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• SIR ALBERT WOODS (1816-1904)

WOODS (1816-1904)  , English herald, son of Sir William Woods, Garter king-of-arms from 1838 to his death in 1842, was born on the 16th of April 1816 . In 1838 he became a member of the chapter of the Heralds' College, of which he was appointed registrar in 1866 . In 1869 he was knighted and became Garter king-of-arms . In this capacity he was entrusted ' The expression Picus martins was by old writers used in a very general sense for all birds that climbed trees, not only woodpeckers, but for the nuthatch and tree-creeper (qq.v.) as well . The adjective martins loses all its significance if it be removed from Picus, as some even respectable authorities have separated it.with many missions to convey the order to foreign sovereigns; he was also registrar from 1878 of the orders of the Star of India and of the Indian Empire; and from 1869 was king-of-arms of the order of St Michael and St George . He officiated at the coronations both of Queen Victoria and of King Edward VII., and his authority on questions of precedence was unique . His later distinctions were K.C.B . (1897), K.C.M.G . (1899) and G.C.V.O . (1903) . He died on the 7th of January 1904 .