Born 31 May 1867, at sea, eldest son of Arthur Slater WOODHOUSE and Mary Rachael WEBSTER. Died 06 January 1961 Finchley, North London, England.
Married:-
1. Marie VOZNESENSKY - no children.
2. Selina ROGERS - 2 children:-
George WOODHOUSE, b. 1894
Ella Winifred Edith WOODHOUSE, b. 29 January 1896
Transcribed entry from:-
WHO WAS WHO, 1961 - 1970
WOODHOUSE, Arthur William Webster, C.B.E. 1920;Born at sea, 31st May 1867, eldest son of late H.B.M. Consul Arthur Woodhouse and Mary Rachel, daughter of Richard Webster, Jersey; married 1st 1892, Selina, daughter of Henry Rogers, Odessa; 2nd Marie, widow of Vladimir Voznesenky, St. Petersburg; one daughter, one adopted daughter, (one son deceased).
Educated: Oxenford House Academy, Jersey. Entered Consulate-General at Odessa as clerk, 1886; employed on the Afghan Boundary Commission, 1887-88; Vice-Consul, Batoum, 1891; Acting Consul-General at Odessa in each year, 1891-94, and in 1901 and 1903; Vice-Consul at Odessa 1893; Acting Vice-Consul Sevastopol 1894; transferred to Nicolaiev 1895; to Boston 1905; Consul at St. Pierre-Miquelon 1906; transferred to Thorshavn 1907; to St. Petersburg 1907; Coronation medal 1911; arrested by Bolshevik forces, 30th August 1918; imprisoned in Troubetskoi Bastion until 6th October and left Petrograd 10th October 1918; Consul-General at New Orleans 1919; Acting Consul-General at Genoa 1920; H.B.M.’s Consul-General Gothenburg, Sweden, 1921; retired 1927.
Recreations: yachting, reading.
Address: 30 Cyprus Road, London N.3.
Club: Royal Over-Seas League
Died 6th January 1961.
A.W.W. Woodhouse
OBITUARY - THE TIMES Tues 10 Jan 1961
Mr A.W.W. Woodhouse
Mr. Arthur William Webster Woodhouse, C.B.E., who died on Friday, at the age of 93, spent many years in the Consular Service and through many years’ residence in Russian cities - Odessa in particular - acquired a wide knowledge of Russian life. On August 30, 1918, he was arrested by Bolshevik forces and imprisoned in the Troubetskoi bastion until October 6. Four days later he left Petrograd and served subsequently as Consul-General at New Orleans and Gothenburg.
This extract is from Ella Woodhouse's diary:-
ARTHUR WILLIAM WEBSTER WOODHOUSE Born at sea on board Russian S/S “Odessa”, Captain Chingria, off Philipsville, Algeria, May 31, 1867.
Father: Arthur Slater Woodhouse, born at Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire, July 17 1841, died Riga Nov 11, 1912, only son of his father William who lived on his farm at Kirk Ireton. His Uncle, Slater, was Mayor of Derby.
Mother: Mary Rachel Webster, born at Chapeltown, Yorkshire, Jan 5, 1847, died Wembley Jan 5, 1937.
Grandfather Richard Webster, Mother’s Father, born near Hull, Yorkshire, Jan 18, 1804, died Jersey Feb 11, 1898.
His wife, Grandmother Webster, Sarah, born near Bradford, 1821, died Feb 16, 1907 in Jersey. Her Father, Great Grandfather John Clayton, born York 17 ..?83.
Father joined Brother-in-law, Richard Clayton Hartley Webster, my Mother’s Brother, at Odessa some time about 1868. Uncle Webster became a ship owner in Kherson and he and his sole partner Ivan Avksentievick Kovalenko, were established in Kherson. They possessed, say 1890, one ocean going steamer, 3 passenger steamers, 3 tug-boats, 50-odd large barges and a number of sailing craft, with their own shipbuilding yard and a number of piers in various ports for their passenger boats etc. Swallowed up by the Revolution. Father left Uncle Webster’s office in 1890 or so and became H.B.M. Vice Consul at Nicolaiev. He was promoted to Consul in Riga 1895. Died there in 1912. Mother’s sister was married (second time) to William Wagstaff, British Vice Consul at Nicolaiev, who became Consul General at Rio de Janeiro before 1900.
He died at Eastbourne.
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