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Loan 96 RLF 1/1982
Reverend John George Wood (pseudonym: George Forrest), Mrs Jane Eleanor Wood, his widow, and Misses Amy Wood, Winifred Wood, Eleanor Wood and Violet Wood, their daughters

Reverend John George Wood

Applications

3 (3 successful)

Date period

22 Dec 1875-15 Apr 1889

Awards

  • 22 Dec 1875 (£125)
  • 2 Jun 1877 (£50)
  • 16 Mar 1889 (£100 - to Jane Eleanor Wood; also £200 - to Amy Wood
  • Winifred Wood
  • Eleanor Wood and Violet Wood)

Other author name(s)

(pseudonym) George Forrest Forrest

Author's career

  • M.A. from Merton College Oxford
  • Chaplain at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1856-1862
  • Reader at Christ Church Greyfriars
  • Fellow of the Linnean Society
  • Awarded a Civil List pension in 1875

Author's works published

Scientific : Natural History; also History, Non-Fiction, Topography, Sport, Editions, Journalism

Also named in file

Miss Amy Wood (dependent)
Eleanor Wood (dependent)
Mrs Jane Eleanor Wood (dependent)
Violet Wood (dependent)
Winifred Wood (dependent)

Timeline

1875

Application Form, John George Wood

22 Dec 1875
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John George Wood to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 Dec 1875
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James Hain Friswell to the Committee of the Literary Fund

22 Dec 1875
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William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron Mount-Temple, to the Committee of the Literary Fund

28 Dec 1875
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John Lubbock to Octavian Blewitt

28 Dec 1875
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Newton Crosland to Octavian Blewitt

29 Dec 1875
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1876

Receipt, signed John George Wood [misdated 1875]

13 Jan 1876
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John George Wood to the Committee of the Literary Fund

14 Jan 1876
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Algernon Turnor, at 10 Downing Street, to Octavian Blewitt, enquiring about John George Wood

6 Jun 1876
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Newton Crosland to Octavian Blewitt, informing him of the pension awarded to John George Wood

18 Jun 1876
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1877

Application Form, John George Wood

2 Jun 1877
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John George Wood to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Jun 1877
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A Lyons Hall to the Committee of the Literary Fund

30 May 1877
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D French to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Jun 1877
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F Petrie, of the Victorian Institute) to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Jun 1877
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Edward Parry, Bishop of Dover, to Octavian Blewitt

2 Jun 1877
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Edwin Arnold to the Committee of the Literary Fund

4 Jun 1877
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John George Wood to Octavian Blewitt, with clipping from the Daily News on the promotion of special religious services in mission rooms

6 Jun 1877
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John Lubbock to Octavian Blewitt

6 Jun 1877
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Jane Eleanor Wood to Octavian Blewitt

11 Jun 1877
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John George Wood to the Committee of the Literary Fund

15 Jun 1877
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Schedule of payments to John George Wood, most signed for by Jane Eleanor Wood

14 Jun 1877-15 Nov 1877
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1889

Application Form, Jane Eleanor Wood

16 Mar 1889
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Jane Eleanor Wood to the Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Mar 1889
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Frederick Waymouth Gibbs to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

12 Mar 1889
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Alfred Whitehead to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

14 Mar 1889
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Alfred Whitehead to the Committee of the Literary Fund

16 Mar 1889
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Newton Crosland to the Committee of the Literary Fund

19 Mar 1889
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Jane Eleanor Wood to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

4 Apr 1889
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Receipt, signed Jane Eleanor Wood

12 Apr 1889
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Receipt, signed Amy Wood, Winifred Wood, Eleanor Wood and Violet Wood

12 Apr 1889
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Jane Eleanor Wood to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Apr 1889
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Jane Eleanor Wood to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

12 Apr 1889
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Alfred Whitehead to Arthur Llewelyn Roberts

15 Apr 1889
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