Robert Wood
Allan Ramsay · Public domain
- Born
- 1717 · Trim.
- Died
- 1771 · Putney.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Occupation
- politician · classical scholar · writer · archaeologist · philologist
- Education
- University of Glasgow
- Languages
- English
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Robert Wood is recorded as politician, classical scholar, writer, archaeologist and philologist. [Robert Wood correspondence].
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1717
Robert Wood born at Trim.
1771
Robert Wood died at Putney.
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Wood, Robert, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Wood, Robert, Oxford Art Online, 2003
Wood, Robert Sydney, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Wood, Robert (1717?–1771), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018
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- 1.Finnegan, Rachel. The Life and Works of Robert Wood: Classicist and Traveller (1717-1771). Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. 6 January 2022. 9781803271774.
- 2.Finnegan, Rachel, "The Library of Robert Wood (1717-1772)." The Book Collector 72 (no. 3) Summer, 2023:343-353.
- 3.Page 40, Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition – London: St Martin's Press, 1957)
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