Sir Robert Stanford Wood KBE CB (5 July 1886 – 18 May 1963) was a civil servant and educational administrator.
It was expected that Wood would become permanent secretary, but this did not happen probably due to objections from Ellen Wilkinson, the Labour minister of education.
Wood then left the ministry in 1946 succeeding Kenneth Vickers as Principal of Southampton University College.
[1] Acquisition of new buildings and equipment was a priority made difficult by considerable damage to the port of Southampton during the war.
He worked closely with Lillian Penson, Vice-Chancellor of London University, which awarded external degrees to Southampton students at the time.