Securing his place in the Oxford side for 1892 and 1893, he made a further fifteen appearances,[3] gaining a blue in 1892.
During his studies he also played minor cricket for Warwickshire, then considered a second-class county.
He was an administrator to the Baluchistan Agency in 1903, before becoming deputy-secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department in 1908.
[7] Wood was residing in Lahore in 1913,[1] and by 1916 he was a member of the Council of the Governor-General, assigned to create new laws and regulations.
[9] Just over five years later in June 1922, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.