At one time Arthur thought of taking holy orders, but was dissuaded by his cousin Nicholas Ferrar.
He was a correspondent of Ferrar's sister Susanna Collett, and a close friend of Herbert.
It was probably through Sir John Danvers that Wodenoth became interested in the Virginia Company.
He was not a member till some time after 1612, but he took an active part in the affairs of the company till the revocation of its charter, siding, like Ferrar, with the party of Sir Edwin Sandys against that of Sir Thomas Smith.
In 1644 he was deputy governor of the Somers Islands Company, and before his death he drew up a Short Collection of the most Remarkable Passages from the Originall to the Dissolution of the Virginia Company, London, 1651; it is in the main a defence of Sandys, Ferrar, and Danvers.