He was later head of the department of ancient history at the University of Sheffield.
[2] He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Magdalen College, University of Oxford.
In 1924 he was awarded the Greek Order of the Redeemer (class unknown).
[1] Among Woodward's writings were articles for The Numismatic Chronicle (he was a keen student of numismatics), numerous articles for the proceedings of the British School at Athens, articles for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and, later, entries for The Oxford Classical Dictionary under the initials "AMW".
[citation needed] Woodward died, at the age of 90, on 12 November 1973.