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WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 803 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WOODS, SIR ALBERT (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.


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