Person: WOOD, A.A., F.C.S. (1846-1900)

Person summary

Biographical summary of this person

Portrait photo from OMLJ, April 1897

Full name

Augustus Alfred WOOD F.C.S.

Gender

male

Relevance of this person

proprietor of lantern and slide business, occasional lantern lecturer

Main period of activity

1890s-1900s

Relationships to other people

son of WOOD, E.G. (1811-1896)

nephew of WOOD, George S. (1816-1882)

cousin of WOOD, William (c.1848- ? )

cousin of WOOD, John (1850- after 1901)

Chronology

Date

Age

Event/activity

1846

born at

City and Finsbury, London, England

1861

resident

117 Cheapside, London EC, England

7 April 1861

~15

census record

1861 Census of England and Wales, RG9/223.73.5

1871-1898

resident

74 Cheapside, London EC, England

19 September 1876

~30

lecturer

[Magic lantern lecture] (lantern lecture, London, England, 19 September 1876)

6 March 1877

~31

lecturer

[Magic lantern exhibition] (lantern entertainment, London, England, 6 March 1877)

8 April 1879

~33

lecturer

[Magic lantern exhibition] (lantern entertainment, London, England, 8 April 1879)

3 April 1881

~35

census record

1881 Census of England and Wales, RG11/379.18.5
– occupation “Optician”

5 April 1891

~45

census record

1891 Census of England and Wales, RG12/239.139.18
– occupation “Optician Assistant”

1895-1900

~48

owner

E.G. Wood

1900

resident

16 Finsbury Square, London, England

10 September 1900

~54

died at

Holborn, London, England

14 February 1901

archive entry

National Probate Calendar Index of Wills and Administrations, 1901 U-Z p.222

Texts linked to this person

Article (1)

A.A. Wood, ‘Practical hints to unpractised lecturers’ in OMLJ 2.30 (November 1891)

Books (2)

A.A. Wood, Magic lanterns: how made and how used, with practical hints to unpractised lecturers. Third edition (London: E.G. Wood, 1885)

A.A. Wood, Magic lanterns: how made and how used, with practical hints to unpractised lecturers. Fourth edition (London: E.G. Wood, 1891)

Correspondence (published) (1)

C. Goodwin Norton, H.G. White, W. Stocks, H. Snowden Ward, ‘Beginner’, George M. Howard, A.A. Wood and Edmund H. Wilkie, ‘Correspondence’ in OMLJ 4.50 (July 1893) – 'Who invented dissolving views?'

Lectures (2)

A.A. Wood, Fifty years' reign of Queen Victoria (London: E.G. Wood, 1886)

A.A. Wood, History of the English Bible (London: E.G. Wood, n.d.)

References

John Barnes, ‘The Barnes Museum: catalogue excerpts’ in NMLJ 1.2 (February 1979), p. 6

‘Notes’ in OMLJ 11.137 (October 1900)
– obituary notice

‘Prominent men in the lantern world: no. VI -- Mr A.A. Wood’ in OMLJ 8.95 (April 1897)

Lucerna ID 6001108

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 19 July 2022

Search for another person Print this record

How to cite this record: all the information in Lucerna is freely available for use for any legal non-commercial purpose. If you use any of the information or any images from this page, please credit Lucerna in the following (or an equivalent) style:

Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource, lucerna.exeter.ac.uk, item 6001108. Accessed 20 April 2024.

All Lucerna data is published in good faith as the latest known version of the information, but without any guarantee as to its accuracy or completeness. If you can correct or add to our information, or supply any images, please Contact us.

Using images from Lucerna: all the digital images on the Lucerna site are available to use for any legal non-commercial purpose, free of charge, if you acknowledge their source and include any copyright statement as it appears under the image. The images are relatively low-resolution, and not intended for print reproduction or projection. If you need a higher-resolution version of the image(s) on this page, please Contact us to ask about availability.

LUCERNA – the Magic Lantern Web Resource

Person: WOOD, A.A., F.C.S. (1846-1900)