Career
He had gained 14 caps for England at rugby union, including six as captain between 1910 and 1913. Wodehouse joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in the Atlantic Fleet in 1904. During World War I, Wodehouse served on the battleship HMS Revenge at the Battle of Jutland, as a gunnery officer
He commanded Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from 1931 to 1934.
Wodehouse was recalled to active service in 1939, at the beginning of World World War II and served as a Convoy Commodore. He was killed when the merchant vessel Robert L. Holt was sunk by U-69 on 4 July 1941, after he had ordered the South Africa bound convoy he was commanding to scatter due to the attacks by German submarines.