Robin Woods (14 February 1914 – 20 October 1997) was Archdeacon of Sheffield from 1958 to 1962 (succeeding Douglas Harrison and preceding Hayman Johnson), Dean of Windsor from 1962 to 1971 (succeeding Eric Hamilton and preceding Launcelot Fleming), and Bishop of Worcester from 1971 to 1982 (succeeding Lewis Mervyn Charles-Edwards and preceding Philip Goodrich).
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Robin Woods was the son of Bishop Edward Sydney Woods of Lichfield, and he became a deacon of the Church of England in 1938 and a priest in 1939 while being involved in Christian student movements at Cambridge. He served in the British Army from 1942 to 1946, fighting in the Italian theater of World War II. In 1946, he became Vicar of South Wigston in Leicester, and, in 1951, he went to Malaya to serve as Archdeacon of Singapore. From 1958 to 1962, he served as Archdeacon of Sheffield, and he then served as Dean of Windsor from 1962 to 1971, in which position he played an important role in the education of Charles, Prince of Wales. He went on to serve as Bishop of Worcester from 1971 until his retirement in 1982, and he died in 1997.