William Robert Woodman

William Robert Woodman (1828– 20 December 1891), was Supreme Magus of the SRIA and one of three co-founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

[1] Woodman was admitted into the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia on 31 October 1867 and appointed to the office of Secretary General in February 1868.

Under Woodman, the order expanded from London to the rest of England and was extending its influence to Australia and America.

[1] In 1887 he was given the honorary grade of Exempt Adept, of the Isis-Urania Temple of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1888,[2] in which he held the office of Imperator.

He left behind a letter naming William Wynn Westcott as his successor to the SRIA and donating a portion of his library to the society.