Hezekiah Woodward (1590–1675) was an English nonconformist minister and educator, who was involved in the pamphlet wars of the 1640s.
[2] At this period he was linked with John Milton, as authors in "the frequent printing of scandalous Books by divers".
[4] Then, at St Michael's Church, Bray, he was an Independent minister, but was ejected in 1662, after the English Restoration of 1660.
[9] His A Light to Grammar (1641) makes the case for education based on stimulation;[10] A Gate to Science favoured realism and intelligibility in textbooks.
[14][15] His daughter Sarah married Daniel Henchman (c.1627-1685), a founder of Worcester, Massachusetts.