| Authorised form of name | Wood; Thomas Barlow (1869 - 1929); chemist and agricultural scientist |
| Dates | 1869 - 1929 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Habberley, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 21 January 1869 |
| Place of death | Saxlingham, near Holt in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 06 November 1929 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Funeral service: Gonville and Caius College Chapel, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Cremation: Golders Green Crematorium, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | chemist and agricultural scientist |
| Research field | Biology |
| Agriculture |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Edcation:
Norfolk High School, Staffordshire, England; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1889-1891
Career:
Lecturer in Devon (1891); lecturer in Norfolk, alongside which he taught science at Norfolk County School and undertook field trials (1892–93); assistant to George Downing Liveing (FRS 1879) and Secretary of the School of Agriculture, University of Cambridge (1894); then lecturer and reader in agricultural chemistry (1902); Drapers' Professor of Agriculture in the University of Cambridge (1907-1929).
Honours:
CBE 1918
Inaugural Monro fellow of Gonville and Caius College 1908
Memberships:
Institute of Chemistry |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/05/1919 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| Proposer | Reginald Crundall Punnett |
| Leonard Hill |
| Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
| Diarmid Noel Paton |
| Hugh Kerr Anderson |
| Joseph Barcroft |
| George Henry Falkiner Nuttall |
| Albert Charles Seward |
| Rowland Harry Biffen |
| A D Hill |
| Relationships | Parents: E. D. Wood of Field Dalling, Holt, Norfolk, and his mother was from a family of potters from Staffordshire.
Spouse: Margaret Isabel, the daughter of E. S. Beaven from Warminster.
Children: Four. |
| OtherInfo | Researched animal nutrition.
Isolated cannabinol from Indian hemp.
One of the founder editors of The Journal of Agricultural Science. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1931 vol 108 pp i-iii, plate, by Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
| Code | NA789 |