Joseph Wood (schoolmaster)

He was then appointed to take charge at Tonbridge, where he stayed until 1898,[7] when he was chosen to succeed James Welldon as Head Master of Harrow.

[4] The Spectator reported on the appointment "Dr Wood goes to Harrow with the reputation of an energetic and successful organiser... a brilliant scholar, an ardent patron of cricket.

"[3] As explained in Christopher Tyerman's history of Harrow School, Wood was a most unexpected choice, due to his age.

He was left in the invidious position of trying to enforce a policy of compulsory retirement for all schoolmasters at the age of sixty, while himself continuing well beyond it, until he was sixty-eight.

One of the unsuccessful candidates on the shortlist of 1898 was Lionel Ford, a young "coming man",[8] who in the event was appointed to succeed Wood in 1910.