John Woodhouse (priest)

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John Chappel Woodhouse{{efn|His middle name is frequently misspelt Chappell.}} (1749 – 17 November 1833) was an English Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Salop from 17 October 1798 until 24 December 1821;Shropshire Parish registers. Diocese of Lichfield. Phillimore, W.P.W. (Ed) Lichfield, Shropshire Parish Register Society, 1913 and Dean of Lichfield from 1807 until his death.Journals of the House of Lords, Volume 59 p176

Woodhouse was born at Lichfield, son of William, a physician,[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/95d1fc39-aa08-40f6-9c7f-29ba744c996f National Archives] and his wife, Mary Mompesson, granddaughter and heiress of William Chappel.{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1836 |publisher=Henry Colburn |page=614 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=upFIAQAAMAAJ&q=John+Chappel+Woodhouse&pg=PA614 |accessdate=8 February 2020 |language=en}} He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.{{alox2|title=Woodhouse, John Chappell}} He held incumbencies at Donington, Shropshire and Stoke on Trent.The Later Correspondence of George III, Aspinall, A. (Ed) Volume 3 p506: Cambridge, CUP, 1968

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.

Woodhouse died on 17 November 1833.{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000252/18331123/018/0003|title=Death of the Dean of Lichfield|date=23 November 1833|work=Staffordshire Advertiser|access-date=28 July 2019|page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}