The Ven. Charles Maxwell Woosnam MA (6 August 1856 – 7 May 1930)The Times (London, England), Saturday, 10 May 1930; pg. 15; Issue 45509 Deaths was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1893 to 1904.
Woosnam was born in Bombay, the second son of Royal Horse Artillery Maj.-Gen. James Bowen Woosnam (1812 – 1877), of Bicknor Court, Coleford, Gloucestershire, and his wife Agnes, daughter of William Bell, of Bellbrook, Queen's County. His parents were both of landed gentry families; the Woosnam family were of Cefnllysgwynne, Brecknockshire, Wales, originally of Montgomeryshire, and the Bell family of Pendell Court, Bletchingley, Surrey.Burke's Landed Gentry 17th edition, ed. L. G. Pine, 1952, p. 2790
Woosnam was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Cambridge."Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 He was ordained in 1880 and his first post was that of Chaplain to the Tyne Mission to Seamen. He was Vicar of St Peter's, Tynemouth from 1881 NORTH COUNTRY NEWS Northern Echo (Darlington, England), Saturday, 12 November 1881; Issue 3669 to 1888 to 1888; then Rector of Kirby WiskeNew Vicar of Kirby Wiske Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Thursday, 17 May 1888; Issue 15635 for a further two years.Genuki In 1890 he became Chaplain of the Mersey Mission to SeamenECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, 10 May 1890; Issue 4582. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II before his years as an Archdeacon. In 1905 he became Vicar of St Margaret's, Dunham Massey; and his final appointment was as Rector of Aberhafesp,Geograph a post he resigned in 1923.
In 1886, Woosnam married Mary Seeley, daughter of Hilton Philipson.Burke's Landed Gentry 17th edition, ed. L. G. Pine, 1952, p. 2790 Their son, also Maxwell Woosnam, was a well-known sportsman.Obituary Mr. Max Woosnam The Times (London, England), Friday, 16 Jul 1965; pg. 18; Issue 56375
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