In an 1889 publication, Woodall listed his affiliation as the Normal School of Science (now part of the Royal College of Science) in South Kensington.
[1] He was an Associate of the Royal College of Science, and taught physics at the Normal School from 1889 to 1892.
Woodall first announced his work on factorization in a 1911 publication, acknowledging in it his communication on the subject with Allan J. C.
[3] In 1925 Cunningham and Woodall gathered together all that was known about the primality and factorization of the Woodall numbers and the generalized Woodall numbers with base 10, and published a small book of tables.
Since then many mathematicians have continued the work of filling in these tables.