Cecil Wood (academic)
Cecil Wood may refer to: * Cecil Wood (architect) (1878–1947), New Zealand architect * Cecil Wood (bishop) (1874–1937), fourth Anglican Bishop of Melanesia * Cecil Wood (English cricketer) (1875–1960), English cricketer * Cecil Wood (Australian cricketer) (1896-1990), Australian cricketer * Cecil Wood (engineer) (1874–1965), engineer and inventor from New Zealand See also * Wood (surname) ''Wood'' is a surname in the English language. It is common throughout the world, especially countries with historical links to Great Britain. Etymology For the most part, the surname Wood originated as a topographic name used to describe a ...

Cecil Wood (architect)
Cecil Walter Wood (6 June 1878 – 28 November 1947) was a New Zealand architect. He was the dominant architect in Canterbury during the interwar period. Early life Wood was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1878. At his birth, the family lived in Cashel Street West near Antigua Street. His father, Robert Wood, was a timber merchant and later a Christchurch City councillor (1889–1895). His mother was Margaret Amelia (Amy) . His parents had married in 1865 and Cecil was their sixth child. Shortly after childbirth, his mother died on 27 September 1885 (the infant daughter had died two days prior); Cecil was seven at that time and affected by his mother's death. His eldest sister Amy was subsequently in charge of the younger siblings until his father remarried—to Elizabeth Anne —when Cecil was 13. The Wood children did not welcome their new mother and Cecil felt loneliness and resentment, to both his father and his stepmother, which lasted into adulthood. Wood started his ...
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Cecil Wood (bishop)
Cecil John Wood (1874 – 27 April 1957) was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, serving from 1912 to 1919. Wood was educated at St Peter's College, Oxford and ordained in 1897. He held curacies at High Halden, St Marylebone, and Bethnal Green before becoming Vicar of Wimbledon in 1906. Six years later he became Bishop of Melanesia, serving for seven years. He resigned his See effective 31 December 1918. Returning to England he was Rector of Witnesham, 1919–1924; and undertook occasional episcopal duties, including as archbishop's commissary (i.e. acting diocesan bishop) in 1921. He was then appointed Vicar of Jesmond and an Assistant Bishop of Newcastle from 1924 to 1933. He was Rural Dean of Horsham from 1934 to 1940 and then Rector of West Grinstead until retirement in 1946. He married Margorie Allen Bell, the sister of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Chichester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Provin ...
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Cecil Wood (English Cricketer)
Cecil John Burditt Wood (21 November 1875 – 5 June 1960) was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club and London County Cricket Club. He is one of just six players in the first-class history to carry his bat twice in the same match. Making his debut in 1896, he scored 23,879 runs as an opening batsman at an average of 31.05, made in 456 first-class matches. His best score was 225. He took 172 wickets with his right arm slow bowling at 39.43 and took 180 catches in the field. He carried his bat through both innings against Yorkshire County Cricket Club at Bradford in 1911, and completed the feat 17 times in all. He hit 1,000 runs in a season 13 times, going on to 2,000 runs in 1901. A coal merchant by trade, he also captained Leicestershire in a career which ultimately spanned to 1923. He was the Leicestershire Secretary in 1940 and 1941. He was also a notable football player, playing for Leicester Fosse Leicester City Football Club i ...
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Cecil Wood (Australian Cricketer)
Cecil Wood (8 April 1896 – 1990) was an Australian cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er. He played five first-class matches for Tasmania between 1928 and 1930. See also * List of Tasmanian representative cricketers References External links * 1896 births 1990 deaths Australian cricketers Tasmania cricketers Cricketers from Tasmania {{Australia-cricket-bio-1890s-stub ...
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Cecil Wood (engineer)
Cecil Walkden Wood (1874 – 1965) was a New Zealand engineer from Timaru who made New Zealand's first motorcycle in 1901 and second known indigenous motor car in 1902. He also instructed Richard Pearse on making an engine for his flying machine in 1901 and 1902. Early life Wood was born in Timaru on 28 March 1874, the son of Charles Walkden Wood. Educated in Lyttelton, he first worked as a mechanical engineer at Lyttelton, and then became involved in the cycle trade in Christchurch. He married Edith Susan Harris, a daughter of Thomas Harris of Timaru, in September 1899, and they had one son. Tourist Cycle Works, C. W. Wood and Co. Cecil Wood and James Gibson opened their Timaru cycle business, Gibson, Wood and Co., on 8 April 1894; the first cycle shop in town. Charles Macintosh and John James Grandi, coachbuilder, soon joined the partnership. Wood carried on the firm as Tourist Cycle Works, C. W. Wood and Co., when Gibson left the partnership to establish Reliance Cycle Works ...
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