Richard Woodward the younger (c.1743/44 – 22 November 1777) was an Irish composer and organist, probably of English birth.
[1] In 1764 Woodward was awarded a gold medal by the Hibernian Catch Club (which has been referred to as the oldest surviving musical society in Europe) for his canon Let the Words of My Mouth, which is inscribed on his memorial at Christ Church Cathedral.
His folio of glees and anthems formed the first collection of cathedral music published by an Irish composer.
Numerous works are contained in a folio of cathedral music, Opus 3, dedicated to Archbishop Smyth, which was printed by Peter Welcker of London in 1771.
"Although Woodward's output is modest, it establishes him as one of the foremost Irish cathedral composers of the eighteenth century.