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William Wood (botanist)

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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Rev. W. Wood ... To which are subjoined an address delivered at his internment ... and a sermon, on ... his death
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but, as was common at the time, he did not pronounce on doctrinal matters during his sermons. Wood published several collections of sermons and a
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Wood married Louisa Ann Oates (1758–1806), the daughter of a wealthy Leeds family, in 1780 and they had three sons and one daughter.
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In Leeds, Wood took to taking horse rides for his health and discovered an interest in
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Hepper, F Nigel (March 1988). "Willam Wood - an eighteenth-century Leeds botanist".
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who was involved in efforts to remedy the political and educational disabilities of
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He would remain in post in Leeds until his death from complications from
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It was Wood who was critical in preventing the dissolution of the
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People associated with Harris Manchester College, Oxford
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the following year. He subsequently preached all over
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English Unitarian minister and botanist (1745–1808)
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Index

English Unitarian
minister
botanist
Nonconformists
Test Acts
Collingtree
Northampton
Philip Doddridge
Stephen Addington
Market Harborough
Leicestershire
David Jennings
Samuel Morton Savage
Andrew Kippis
Abraham Rees
Debenham
Suffolk
Stamford, Lincolnshire
London
ordained
Southwark
Ipswich
Thomas Scott
Joseph Priestley
Mill Hill Chapel
Leeds
Richard Price
inflammation of the bowel
Calvinist
rejected belief in the Trinity

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