[7] Wedd was highly regarded as an inspirational teacher and a devoted scholar, who put his own intellect at the service of others.

[4] Publishing little of his own besides a translation of Euripides' Orestes,[5] he is credited with playing a significant role in the reinvigoration of classics at Cambridge during his time there,[4] and - with Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - fostering 'the atmosphere of inspiration and individuality that dominated the college at the turn of the century'.

[4]In 1903, a group that included Wedd, Dickinson, and G. M. Trevelyan founded The Independent Review, in Forster's words, 'to advocate sanity in foreign affairs and a constructive policy at home.

In his biography of Forster, Wilfred Stone describes Wedd as 'openly and scandalously anti-God,' this facet of his character providing 'some amusing bits of King's folklore':[5]To complaints about his playing croquet on Sundays, he replied, "I deplore a faith so fragile that it can't survive the click of croquet balls heard on the way to Chapel.

Instead of lessons from the Prayer-book or chapters from the Bible, he read passages from Plato, from Positive philosophy, from Buddhist writers, from Confucius and Zoroaster, from Hindu philosophers...

[2] He was described in his obituary in The Times as serving King's College 'down to the last weeks of his life... with his whole heart and rare gifts of mind and spirit.

'[11] It described his 'genius for teaching', as well as his being 'something of a firebrand':... indeed throughout his life his wit, his vigorous independence, and his fine audacity of language, always used in the service of his quickening sympathy with youth, made him provocative as well as stimulating, a kindler of live sparks in many stubbles.