The Rev. Joseph Wood, D.D., was appointed on Wednesday to
succeed Dr. Welldon as Head-Master of Harrow. The ap- pointment in more ways than one marks a deviation from precedent, as Dr. Wood is an Oxford man, fully twice as old as either of his two predecessors in the post at the time of their accession, and has already been a Head-Master for twenty-eight years. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol, Dr. Wood became Head-Master of Leam- ington College as far back as 1870, and was appointed in 1890 to Tonbridge. In eight years the numbers of Tonbridge have risen from one hundred and seventy to four hundred, and Dr. Wood goes to Harrow with the reputation of an energetic and successful organiser. For the rest, we are assured by an enthusiastic admirer in the Daily Graphic that he is a brilliant scholar, an ardent patron of cricket, "witness the vast number of half-holidays enjoyed by Tun- bridge boys in the summer term," that he resembles the Duke of Wellington in profile and the late Canon Liddon in full face, and that he is "a great believer in repetition and a judicious use of the stick." Although the appointment is in many ways a new departure, it maintains the conne:tion already established between the two schools, Dr. Welldon being the son of an assistant-master, and nephew of a former Head-Master of Tonbridge.
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