Malvina Evalyn Wood (1893-1976), university librarian and college warden, was born in Guildford, Western Australia, daughter of a railway porter.
[1] Genealogy records show that the family's name was initially Shell, but was changed to Wood for unknown reasons.
[2] An announcement of Wood's engagement to Sydney Harrison appeared in The Daily News on 18 May 1914,[3] though her biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography states that she never married but had a long-term relationship with a partner who died in 1947.
Wood a resident of a nursing home in Mosman Park died on 17 September 1976 the bulk of her estate valued at A$250,000 was bequeathed to St Catherine College at University of Western Australia.
[1] Wood received her Bachelor's (1927)[4] and master's degree (1943) from the University of Western Australia.