Henry Woods (MP)

Henry Woods (1822 – 16 May 1882) was an English cotton manufacturer and colliery owner and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1874.

Woods was the son of William Woods of Wigan and his wife Elizabeth Marsden, daughter of Jonathan Marsden.

He was a cotton manufacturer at Wigan, and a colliery owner.

Woods married firstly in 1854 Hannah Hindley daughter of Charles Hindley MP of Portland House, Ashton-under-Lyne.

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