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THE death of Sir Henry Trueman Wood on Jan. 7, at eighty-three years of age, removes from the intellectual and the administrative world a remarkable figure, who, in his prolonged years of great activity did much, indirectly, to shape the conditions under which many of us live. Numerous notable persons, still living, and eminent in the manifold fields in which he laboured, will sincerely regret the disappearance of his well-known tall and spare but distinguished figure, which is so well portrayed by Herkomer in his oil painting which hangs in the council room of the Royal Society of Arts, in the home which Robert Adam, one of the famous brother architects, built for the Society in 1774, in John Street, Adelphi. Here he did much for the Society, as secretary, for thirty-eight years, and was largely instrumental in bringing together a galaxy of talent which included Sir William Siemens, Sir Frederick Bramwell, Sir Frederick Abel, Sir Douglas Galton, Sir Richard Webster, Sir John Wolfe Barry, Sir William Preece, Sir William Abney, Lord Sanderson, and many others, all of whom were chairmen of the council during his secretaryship.
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SWINTON, A. Sir Henry Trueman Wood. Nature 123, 285–286 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123285a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123285a0