George Arnold Wood

George Arnold Wood (7 June 1865 – 14 October 1928) was an English Australian historian notable for writing an early work on Australian history entitled The Discovery of Australia.[1]

Throughout his career Wood wrote for the Manchester Guardian, supporting Irish Home Rule and opposing Imperial Federation.[2]

He married Eleanor Madeline Whitfeld and had three sons and a daughter.[1] One of his sons was the journalist Alan Wood,[3] while another was Frederick Wood, professor of history at Victoria University College in Wellington, New Zealand.[1][4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Serle, Percival (1949). "Wood, George Arnold". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
  2. ^ Symonds, Richard. Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause?. OUP. pp. 228–256. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203001.003.0013.
  3. ^ Bertrand Russell, "Mr. Alan Wood" (obituary), The Times, 5 November 1957, p. 13; republished in Andrew Bone, ed., The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: Volume 29 Détente or Destruction, 1955-57 (Routledge, 2005)
  4. ^ Munz, Peter. "Frederick Lloyd Whitfeld Wood". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.

References

  • R. M. Crawford 'A Bit of A Rebel.' The Life and Work of George Arnold Wood. Sydney University Press. 1975.

John A. Moses, Prussian-German Militarism 1914–18 in Australian Perspective: The Thought of George Arnold Wood. Bern Peter Lang, 1991.

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