Henry's father,
Samuel Woodward, was a noted geologist and antiquary. Henry's brother
Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward became a noted librarian and antiquary while his brother
Samuel Pickworth Woodward became a professor of geology and natural history. His nephews were
Bernard Barham Woodward, a British
malacologist and a member of staff at the
British Museum and the
Natural History Museum and
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, who was vice-president of the
Geological Society and a
Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a promising zoologist, but was lost at sea when the boat in which he was traveling capsized in
Ballinakill harbour. Henry also had five daughters, two of whom—
Alice B. Woodward and
Gertrude Mary Woodward—worked in biological illustration, although Alice was primarily known for her children's book illustrations. ==References==