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SIR ALBERT WOODS (1816-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:ALBERT See also:WOODS (1816-1904)  , See also:English See also:herald, son of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Woods, Garter See also:king-of-arms from 1838 to his See also:death in 1842, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:April 1816 . In 1838 he became a member of the See also:chapter of the Heralds' See also: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 See also:general sense for all birds that climbed trees, not only woodpeckers, but for the See also:nuthatch and See also:tree-creeper (qq.v.) as well . The See also:adjective martins loses all its significance if it be removed from Picus, as some even respectable authorities have separated it.with many See also:missions to convey the See also:order to See also:foreign sovereigns; he was also registrar from 1878 of the orders of the See also:Star of See also:India and of the See also:Indian See also:Empire; and from 1869 was king-of-arms of the order of St See also:Michael and St See also:George . He officiated at the coronations both of See also:Queen See also:Victoria and of King See also:Edward VII., and his authority on questions of See also: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 .

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