The Rt Rev Claude Thomas Thelluson Wood MC (27 February 1885 – 17 January 1961) was an eminent Bishop in the mid part of the twentieth century.
He was in France from 1915 where he was awarded the Military Cross 'for service in the Field' and was Mentioned in Despatches.
[2] He served as vicar at Croydon and Tring and was then successively Rural Dean of Berkhamsted, Archdeacon of St Albans[3] and then Bishop of Bedford.
[4] Clement Attlee, like Winston Churchill, preferred men who had shown their mettle in the Great War.
Wood remained in post for only 5 years because of a car crash in which he damaged his pelvis.