Charles Lindley Wood, 2d Viscount Halifax
1839–1934
Ecumenist. Actively defended the Catholic heritage of the Church of England and supported moves to eventual reunification. Studied law and modern history at Christ Church, Oxford; graduated 1863. Groom of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales, 1862–77. President of the English Church Union, 1868–1919, 1927–34. Succeeded his father as second viscount Halifax in 1885.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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