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{{Short description|British admiral in the Ottoman Navy (1843–1929)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name = Henry Felix Woods Pasha
| image = Henry Felix Woods Spunyarn frontispiece.jpg
| caption = Woods, inside plate of his autobiography "Spunyarn".
| birth_date = {{birth date|1843|06|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = Jersey
| death_date = {{death date and age|1929|02|18|1843|06|18|df=y}}
| death_place =
| allegiance = United Kingdom<br>[[Ottoman Empire]]
| branch = [[British Navy]]<br>[[Ottoman Navy]]
| spouse = 
| children =
| website = 
}}

'''Sir Henry Felix Woods Pasha''' (1843–1929), [[Royal Victorian Order|KCVO]], also known as '''Woods Pasha''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]]-[[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[admiral]] and a [[pasha]] in [[Ottoman Navy|Imperial Ottoman Naval Service]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.levantineheritage.com/testi39.htm |title=Levantine testimony 39 |last=Osman |first=Yusuf |website=Levantine Heritage |access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref>

A British naval officer, Woods was born in [[Jersey]] in 1843 and educated at the Upper School of [[Greenwich Hospital (London)]], which offered training for the [[Royal Navy]]. After finishing at the top of his class, he entered as a [[Master's mate#Mate|Masters Assistant]]. On 17 October 1867, he was appointed a [[Lieutenant (naval)|Navigating Lieutenant]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pbenyon1.plus.com/Nbd/masters/22323.html |title=RN Masters, Staff and Navigating Officers etc. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622001740/http://www.pbenyon1.plus.com/Nbd/masters/22323.html |archive-date=22 June 2011 |access-date=24 November 2010}}</ref> (a rank which was formerly known as the [[Master (naval)|Master]]).

He was attached to the British Embassy in the [[Ottoman Empire]], and eventually joined the Imperial Ottoman Navy, where he was given the rank of [[Admiral]]. He was [[Aide-de-Camp]] for some years to Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]]. After Abdul Hamid was deposed, he was reported by ''[[The New York Times]]'' to be present at the 1909 [[Sword of Osman|coronation]] of the succeeding sultan, [[Mehmed V]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/05/11/101880440.pdf |title=New Sultan Breaks Moslem Traditions |date=1909-05-11 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2009-04-19 |page=4|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Woods Pascha was invested as a Knight Commander of the [[Royal Victorian Order]] (KCVO) by King [[Edward VII]] at [[Buckingham Palace]] on 11 August 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular|date=12 August 1902 |page=8 |issue=36844}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27467 |page=5461 |date=22 August 1902}}</ref> He was awarded the Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Medjidie|Medjidie]] and [[Osminieh Order|Osminieh]] and was a Knight Commander of the Saxe-Coburg Order. He died in 1929 in Constantinople (modern [[Istanbul]]).

== Publications ==
* {{Cite book |last=Woods |first=Henry Felix |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b57547 |title=Spunyarn: from the strands of a sailor's life afloat and ashore: forty-seven years under the ensigns of Great Britain and Turkey |date=1924 |publisher=Hutchinson & Co. |location=London |hdl=2027/uc1.$b57547 |language=English |oclc=1080154967}}

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