Henry Harvey Wood FRSE OBE (5 September 1903 – 12 August 1977) was a Scottish literary and artistic figure best known as a founder of the Edinburgh International Festival.
He was born in Edinburgh on 5 September 1903 the second of three children to Henry Wood (d.1934) a paper-maker, and his wife, Anne Cassidy.
[citation needed] In the Second World War he was declared unfit for active service, but worked briefly in Intelligence.
[2] He also published critical editions of works by Robert Henryson and John Marston as well as a book on Scottish literature.
He persuaded Rudolf Bing to meet with the Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir John Falconer which led to the staging of the Festival in 1947.