Sydney Woods (politician)

Sydney Woods (September 13, 1853[1] – after 1895) was a merchant and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Bay de Verde in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1894 to 1895 as a Liberal.[2]

He was born in St. John's and was educated at the General Protestant Academy there. He began work with his father's firm and later worked as a bookkeeper in several firms. In 1885, he established his own hardware business. His store was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1892 but he resumed business soon afterwards in a new premises. Woods was a prominent Methodist and served as president of the Methodist Academic Literary Institute. He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in an 1894 by-election[1] held after his brother Henry J. B. Woods was unseated.[3] He resigned his seat in 1895 to allow his brother to run for reelection.[2]

Woods married Emma Burns, who was originally from Nova Scotia.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Mott, Henry Youmans (1894). Newfoundland men : a collection of biographical sketches, with portraits ... p. 79.
  2. 1 2 "Elections". Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. pp. 698–700.
  3. ↑ "The Liberal Candidates and Their Meeting at Adam's Cove". Evening Telegraph. May 23, 1894.
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