Abraham Woodhead

[1] Born at Meltham in the parish of Almondbury, West Yorkshire, he died at Hoxton in Middlesex.

While travelling abroad in 1645, he began to think of joining the Catholic Church, but the exact date of his conversion is not known.

Ejected from his fellowship in 1648, he became tutor to the young Duke of Buckingham, and then lived with the Earl of Essex and other friends till 1654, when he and some other Catholics purchased a house at Hoxton, where they lived a community life, occupying themselves with devotion and study.

Among his numerous books the chief original works were: He also translated the "Life of St. Teresa" and Augustine's "Confessions", and paraphrased the Epistles of St. Paul (with Walker and Allestree) and the Apocalypse.

A large collection of his unpublished manuscripts, with autograph letters and writings relating to him, which was formed in the eighteenth century by Cuthbert Constable, came into the possession of Sir Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., of Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield.