Charles Maxwell Woosnam MA (6 August 1856 – 7 May 1930)[1] was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1893 to 1904.
Woosnam was born in Bombay, the second son of Royal Horse Artillery Maj.-Gen. James Bowen Woosnam (1812 – 1877), of Bicknor Court, Coleford, Gloucestershire, and his wife Agnes, daughter of William Bell, of Bellbrook, Queen's County.
He was Vicar of St Peter's, Tynemouth from 1881 [4] to 1888; then Rector of Kirby Wiske[5] for a further two years.
In 1905 he became Vicar of St Margaret's, Dunham Massey; and his final appointment was as Rector of Aberhafesp,[8] a post he resigned in 1923.
In 1886, Woosnam married Mary Seeley, daughter of Hilton Philipson.