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Richard Woodward (1726 – 12 May 1794) was an English Protestant cleric, active in Ireland during the 18th century. Educated at the University of Oxford, he moved to Ireland and would become the author of a vigorous defence of the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Woodward was made an Anglican Bishop of Cloyne in the Church of Ireland.