Born	1868
Died	1940
Son of George Woollcombe and Emily Stirling

Harry Woollcombe

He was educated at Clifton College and Keble College, Oxford. Ordained Deacon 1895, Priest 1896 by the Bishop of London. Curate of Stepney 1895. Head of the Oxford House 1901 - 1909. First Bishop of Whitby 1923. 1938 - Sufffragann Bishop of Selby and rector of Bolton Percy. Carol Woollcombe relates a story witnessed by her father and which stayed with him for the rest of his life. A dog attempted to leap over an iron spiked rail and impaled itself. The dog was severly injured and bleeding heavily. Someone remarked that a short way off a man lived known as the 'bloodstopper', who could stop the bleeding. The dog was rushed to this old man's house and laid on a table. The man told them all to be silent and then went to a cupboard and spoke some unintelligible words. The dog immediately stopped bleeding. From http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/woollcombe.htm (25/2/08) Hawera & Normanby Star, 18 February 1910, Page 7 The Rev. H. C. Woollcombe, a messenger from the Church of England Men's Society, charged with a message to men in the far country, who is chaplam to the Archbishop of York, and who, because of his labor amongst men, may be written down, like Abou Ben Adhoni, "as one that loves his fellowmen," will lecture to men next Thursday, February 24, at the Opera House. The Otago Daily Times says that obvious characteristics of Mr Woollcombe are frankness, geniality, fervor, and broad-mindedness. His eloquence reminds one of a river almost at the flood ? rapid, and not to be meddled with. Mr Woollcombe is half Scotch, on his mother's side the best side always, as every man knows. He is a young man, fresh-faced, and eager as a boy on holiday. After thanking the citizens for the welcome given him, he said that he did not regard himself as an absolute stranger to New Zealand. His uncle (Captain Woollcombe), now passed, to his rest, had been resident magistrate in Timaru.