Researching Hugh Wood
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 95422 people with the Wood surname? In that year Wood was ranked number 16 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Hugh means "Bright in Mind and Spirit" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Hugh Wood on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Hugh Wood and the Wood Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 105866 people with the Wood surname in the UK? Wood is now ranked number 22 for popularity in the UK. |
Wood Genealogy Databases
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Hugh Wood (cricketer)
Hugh Wood (22 March 1855 – 31 July 1941) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, later a school teacher and Church of England priest.
Born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Wood was educated at Sheffield Collegiate School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was a slow left arm orthodox spinner and right-handed lower order batsman, who appeared in ten matches for Cambridge University in 1878 and 1879, and ten matches for Yorkshire in 1879 and 1880. He also appeared for the Gentlemen of the North in 1879.
Wood took five wickets in an innings on five occasions, and ten wickets in a match once, taking 7 for 41 for Cambridge University against Surrey, and 7 for 46 against the Gentlemen of England. He finished his first-class career with the record of 67 wickets at 11.32 each, with a strike rate of 37.46 and an economy rate of 1.81 runs conceded per over. He proved less accomplished with the bat, top scoring with 36 for Yorkshire against I Zingari in the Scarborough Festival.
After leaving Cambridge, Wood taught at Wellington College for eight years, during which he was ordained as a Church of England priest. He was chaplain at Broadmoor Hospital 1893–1906, then vicar of Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire, from 1908 until his death there in 1941.
Source: Hugh Wood (cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaHugh Wood (priest)
Hugh Singleton Wood, KHC (1859–1941) was a Church of England priest and Royal Navy chaplain. He was the Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy, serving from 1906 to 1917.
Wood was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating in 1878 and graduating B.A. in 1882. and ordained in 1884. He began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill. He then served with the Navy from 1886 to 1917. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1910 to 1936.
He died on 8 March 1941.
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