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MRS HENRY [ELLEN] WOOD (1814—1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 790 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MRS

HENRY [ELLEN] WOOD (1814—1887)  ,
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English novelist, was born at Worcester on the 17th of
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January 1814 . Her maiden name was Price; her
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father was a glove manufacturer in Worcester . She married Henry Wood in 1836, and after her
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marriage lived for the most
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part in France, her
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husband, who died in 1866, being, at the head of a large
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shipping and banking
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firm . In 186o she wrote a
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temperance tale, Danesbury House, which gained a prize of boo offered by the Scottish Temperance
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League; but before this she had regularly contributed
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anonymous stories to
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periodicals . Her first
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great success was made with East Lynne (1861), which obtained enormous popularity . It was translated into several
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languages, and a number of dramatic versions were made . The Channings and Mrs Halliburton's Troubles followed in 1862; Verner's Pride and The Shadow of Ashlydyat in 1863; Lord Oakburn's Daughters, Oswald Cray and Trevlyn Hold in 1864 . She became proprietor and editor of the Argosy
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magazine in 1867, and the Johnny Ludlow tales, published anonymously there, are the most
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artistic of her
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works . Among the
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thirty-five novels Mrs Henry Wood produced, the best of those not hitherto mentioned were Roland Yorke (1869); Within the
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Maze (1872) and Edina (1876) . She continued to edit the Argosy, with the assistance of her son, Mr C . W . Wood, till her
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death, which occurred on the zoth of
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February 1887 .

Memorials of Mrs Henry Wood, by her son, were published in 1894 . WOOD,

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SIR HENRY EVELYN (1838— ),
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British field marshal, was born at
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Braintree, Essex, on the 9th of February 1838, the youngest son of Sir John Page Wood, Bart . Educated at Marlborough, he entered the Royal
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Navy in 1852, and served as a
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midshipman in the
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Russian war, being employed on
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shore with the
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naval brigade in the siege operations before Sevastopol, mentioned in despatches, and severely wounded at the assault on the
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Redan on
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June 18, 1855 . Immediately afterwards he
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left the navy for the army, becoming a
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cornet in the 13th
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Light Dragoons . Promoted
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lieutenant in 1856, he exchanged into the 17th Lancers in 1857, and served in the
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Indian Mutiny with distinction as brigade-major of a flying column, winning the Victoria
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Cross . In 1861 he became captain, in 1862 brevet-major, exchanging about the same time into the 73rd Highlanders (Black Watch), but returned to the cavalry three years later . Having meantime served as an aide-de-camp at
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Dublin, he was next employed on the staff at
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Aldershot until 1871, when he was appointed to the 90th (now 2nd Scottish Rifles) as a regimental major . In 1867 he had married the Hon . Mary Pauline South-well,
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sister of the 4th Lord Southwell . In 1873 he was promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel, and in 1874 served in the
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Ashanti War (brevet-colonel); in 1874—1878 he was again on the staff at Aldershot, and in November 1878 he became regimental lieutenant-colonel, the 9oth being at that time in South Africa engaged in the Kaffir War . In January 1879 he was in command of the left column of the army that crossed the Zulu frontier, and shortly afterwards he received the
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local rank of brigadier-general . Under him served Colonel Redvers Buller and also the
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Boer leader, Piet Uys, who fell at Inhlobana., but the re-
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pulse at that place was more than counterbalanced by the successful
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battle of Kambula .

At the

close of the war Sir Evelyn Wood, who received the K.C.B. for his services, was appointed to command the Chatham
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district . But in January 1881 he was again in South Africa with the local rank of major-general, and after Sir G . P . Colley's death at Majuba it fell to his lot to negotiate the armistice with General Joubert . Remaining in
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Natal until February 1882, he then returned to the Chatham command, having meantime been promoted substantive major-general . In 1882 he was made a G.C.M.G. and commanded a brigade in the
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Egyptian expedition . He remained in
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Egypt for six years . From 1883 to 1885 he was Sirdar of the Egyptian army, which he reorganized and in fact created . During the Nile operations of 1884—85 he commanded the forces on the
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line of communication of Lord Wolseley's army . In 1880 he returned to an English command, and two years later (January 1889), with the local rank of lieutenant-general, he was appointed to the Aldershot command . He became lieutenant-general in 1891, and was given the G.C.B. at the close of his tenure of the command, when he went to the War Office as quartermaster-general . Four years afterwards he became adjutant-general .

He was promoted full general in 1895 . He commanded the II . Army

Corps and
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Southern Command from 190f to 1904, being promoted field marshal on the 8th of
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April 1903 . In 1907 he became colonel of the Royal Horse Guards . After retiring from active service he took a leading part, as chair-man of the Association for the City of
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London, in the organization of the Territorial Force . Sir Evelyn Wood published several works, perhaps the best known of which to the soldier are Achievements of Cavalry (1897) and Cavalry in the
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Waterloo
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Campaign (1896) . He also wrote The Crimea in 1854 and in'894; an autobiography, From Midshipman to Field Marshal; and The Revolt in Hindostan .

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