Cecil John Wood (1874 – 27 April 1957)[1] was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, serving from 1912 to 1919.
[2] Wood was educated at St Peter's College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1897.
He held curacies at High Halden,[4] St Marylebone, and Bethnal Green before becoming Vicar of Wimbledon in 1906.
[6] Returning to England he was Rector of Witnesham,[7] 1919–1924; and undertook occasional episcopal duties, including as archbishop's commissary (i.e. acting diocesan bishop) in 1921.
[10] He was Rural Dean of Horsham from 1934 to 1940 and then Rector of West Grinstead until retirement in 1946.