Edited sentence: Bishop Wilfred Wood also served on the Board of the UK's Housing Corporation from 1986 to 1995 and was a founder-member of a number of housing associations.Bishop Wood was made an Honorary Freeman of the London Borough of Croydon in 2002.He also served as chairman and later president of the Institute of Race Relations.he holds honorary doctorates from the Open University, the University of the West Indies and the General Theological Seminary, New York, when he was described in the citation as "..a wide and trusted defender of the rights of minorities..."