John Woodhouse (priest)

John Chappel Woodhouse

John Chappel Woodhouse[a] (1749 – 17 November 1833) was an English Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Salop from 17 October 1798 until 24 December 1821;[1] and Dean of Lichfield from 1807 until his death.[2]

Woodhouse was born at Lichfield, son of William, a physician,[3] and his wife, Mary Mompesson, granddaughter and heiress of William Chappel.[4] He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.[5] He held incumbencies at Donington, Shropshire and Stoke on Trent.[6]

In 1805, he published Woodhouse's Annotations on the Apocalypse, which was well received. He married Mercy Peate (or Peet), with whom he had a son, Chappel Woodhouse (1780–1815), who married Amelia Oakeley, daughter of Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet; and two daughters, Ellen Jane and Mary Anne. His daughter Ellen marriaged firstly, Rev. William Robinson, Rector of Swinnerton; secondly, Hugh Dyke Acland, second son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet; and thirdly, Richard Hinckley of Beacon House, Lichfield.[4]

Woodhouse died on 17 November 1833.[7]


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  1. ^ Shropshire Parish registers. Diocese of Lichfield. Phillimore, W.P.W. (Ed) Lichfield, Shropshire Parish Register Society, 1913
  2. ^ Journals of the House of Lords, Volume 59 p176
  3. ^ National Archives
  4. ^ a b Burke, John (1836). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Henry Colburn. p. 614. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  5. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Woodhouse, John Chappell" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  6. ^ The Later Correspondence of George III, Aspinall, A. (Ed) Volume 3 p506: Cambridge, CUP, 1968
  7. ^ "Death of the Dean of Lichfield". Staffordshire Advertiser. 23 November 1833. p. 3. Retrieved 28 July 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.