Theophilus Wodenote, born at Linkinhorne, near Launceston, Cornwall, was son of Thomas Wodenote, MA, fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and vicar of that parish, who was descended from the Wodenoths or Woodnoths of Cheshire.
He was educated at Eton school, and was elected in 1606 to King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship.
He proceeded MA in due course, and was incorporated in that degree at Oxford on 13 July 1619.
[3] He married at Linkinhorne, in 1615, Mary, daughter of James Spicer of St. Gorran, "who came out of the East Countrey".
His son Theophilus (born 1625) was matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1652, and, like his father, furnished John Aubrey with notes for his Brief Lives.