About Robert Stanford Wood
Lived 1886 – 1963 (aged 76). Robert Stanford Wood was a civil servant.
Sir Robert Stanford Wood (5 July 1886 – 18 May 1963) was a civil servant and educational administrator. He was the last Principal of Southampton University College and the first Vice Chancellor of its successor, the University of Southampton, in 1952.
Early life He was born is Islington, London, the son of a Baptist Minister. He attended the City of London School and then Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took the classical tripos and then historical tripos. and made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1941. He died in Kensington, London.
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Civil Servant, University administrator
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Robert Stanford Wood was born on 5 July 1886.
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Robert Stanford Wood died on 18 May 1963.
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Robert Stanford Wood was a civil servant.
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