Frederick Wood

Background

Wood was born in Southam, Warwickshire circa 1807.

Career

He was employed by the Oxford Canal Company from 1831 to 1857. From 1855 he was a land agent to the L&NWR Railway to 1881. He was elected to the Rugby local board of health the first in the country in September 1834.

They had six sons, Frederick Ormiston Wood, George Frederick Wood, Alfred Wood, Hubert James Wood, Charles Wood, Frank Ernest Wood.

Hubert attended Rugby School from age 11 in 1850.

Achievements

• Whilst in Rugby he was an Inspector and a director of the Rugby Gas & Coke Company In 1868 he became a founder member of the Institution of Surveyors (now the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors).

Membership

He was also a member of the first Local board of health, and clerk to the Rugby petty sessions (1831 to 1871).