Edgar Hugh Woodcock was born in Altrincham, Cheshire, England on 31 August 1866. It is not know with whom he was articled. He went to Charles Clegg (1827?-1922) and John Knowles of Clegg & Knowles as an improver. He then worked as an assistant to William Raby & Son, to W. A. Deighton, ad to Francis Lodge Harris (1864-1924). He also attended Manchester Technical School and Manchester School of Art.
In the 1890s moved to South Africa and worked in the Cape Government Architects' Department for eleven years. In 1907, whilst living in Johannesburg, he passed his qualifying exam as an architect and in 1909 was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA). In c.1910 he returned to England and in 1911 was living in London, where, in addition to practising as an architect, he taught at the L.C.C. School of Building, and at the Northern Polytechnic Institute.
His address was given as 20 Clyde Street Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa in 1909; 10 Walcott Gardens, Lambeth, London in 1911 and 1914; c/o H.M. Office of Works, Storey’s Gate, London in 1920. He died in Lowestoft. Suffolk on 19 February 1957
Considerable number of public buildings In this country and South Africa; commercial and domestic buildings in Lancashire and neighbourhood; private residences in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, and elsewhere
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001