Honorable Mention
Prominent People Born Before 1900
John Wood (1704-1754) is the English architect who re-planned the city of Bath.
Alexander Wood (1817-1884) is the Scot who invented hypodermic needles.
Sir Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944) is the famous conductor and composer (1906 by Emest Walter Histed)
Albert Beaumont Wood (1890-1964) is a British Physicist who pioneered research in field of underwater acoustics and sonar.
John Wood (ca. 1780 1847) is a Scottish Surveyor, Town Planner, and Map Maker. He completed 150 plans of towns in England, Wales and Scotland.
Captain John Wood (born 1812 1871) served in the British Indian Navy and discovered the source of the River Oxus – the longest river in Southeast Asia – 1837.
Thomas Wood (1499-1582) a Papist and Chaplain of Queen Mary. Before imprisoned at Marshalsea, he was Prebendary of Canterbury and Westminster Abbey.
Thomas Wood (1719-1783) the Abstemious Miller of Billericay due to a vegetarian diet celebrated in the “Gentleman’s Magazine”(portrait in the Cater Museum).
Evelyn Wood (1838 – 1919) is British Army Officer and Constable of the Tower. He was born in Cressing Bantree. His father was John Page Wood, 2nd Baronet.
Robert W Wood (1868 – 1955) is a Physicist and Science Fiction Writer. He taught at John Hopkins. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Richard Woods (ca. 1714 – 1793) is a Papist Landscape Gardener who completed gardens for Audley End, Hatfield Priory, Thorndon Hall, Marks Hall and others. Audley End is known as the finest Jacobean house in England.