Online Encyclopedia

SIR ALBERT WOODS (1816-1904)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:
SIR ALBERT WOODS (1816-1904)  ,
See also:
English herald, son of
See also:
Sir William Woods, Garter king-of-arms from 1838 to his
See also:
death in 1842, was born on the 16th of
See also:
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
See also:
Picus martins was by old writers used in a very general sense for all birds that climbed trees, not only woodpeckers, but for the
See also:
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
See also:
foreign sovereigns; he was also registrar from 1878 of the orders of the
See also:
Star of India and of the
See also:
Indian
See also:
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
See also:
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
See also:
January 1904 .

End of Article: SIR ALBERT WOODS (1816-1904)
[back]
LEONARD WOODS (1774-1854)
[next]
WOODSTOCK

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.