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1866; "A Life's Secret," 1867; " Eoland Yorke," 1869 ; " George Canterbury's Will/' and "Bessy Eane," 1870; "Dene Hollow/' 1871; "Within the Maze/' 1872; •'Master of Greylands/' 1873; " Edina/' 1876 ;'," Pomeroy Abbey/' in 1878 ; "Johnny Ludlow/' 1880 ; "Count Netherleigh/' 1881; and "About Ourselves/' 1883. Mrs. Wood is editor of the Argosy, a six- penny monthly magazine.

WOOD, General Sib Henry EvBLTN, V.C, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., is the youngest son of the late Eev. Sir John Pa^e Wood, Bart., of Kivenhall, sometime vicar of Cressing, Essex, and rector of St. Peter's, ComhiU, by Emma Caroline, youngest daughter of Mr. Sampson Mitchell, of Croft West, Cornwall, an admiral in the Portu- guese service. He was born at Cressing in Feb. 1838, entered the Navy in 1852, served with distinc- tion as aide-de-camp to Captain Sir William Peel, in command of the Naval Brigade in the Crimea (1854- 55), and was present at the siege of Sebastopol. At the imsuccessful assault on the Eedan (June 18, 1855), while carrying one of the. scaling-ladders, he was severely wounded, for which he was men- tioned with praise in one of Lord Baglan's dispatches. He obtained the Crimean medal with two clasps, the 5th class of the Order of the Medjidieh, ai^d a Turkish medal ; and was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honoiu*. He next entered the army as ensign in the 73rd Eegiment; was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1856 ; cap- tain in 1861 ; and major in 1862. In the Indian campaign of 1858 he served as a brigade-major, and was present at the actions of Eajghur, Sindwaho, Kharee, and Baroda, for which he gained a medal, and was twice mentioned in dispatches. In 1859 and 1860 he commanded the Ist Regiment of Beatson's Irregular Horse, and received the thanks of the Indian Government for his pm--

suit of the rebels in the Seronge jungle; he also won the Victoria Cross for valour. He raised the 2nd regiment of Central India Horse. In Sept. 1873, being a lieutenant- colonel of the 90th Infantry, he accompanied Major - Greneral Sir Garnet Wolseley to the Ashantee War, and organized a native force, which he commanded, with other troops, in the affairs of Essaman, and on the road from Mansu to the river Prah, following the retreat of the Ashantee army from the coast. Lieutenant - Colonel Wood after- wards commanded the right wing of the army in the battles of Amoa- f ul and Ordahsu and the capture of Coomassie. For these services he was several times mentioned with approbation in the dispatches, and was nominated a C.B. (1874), pro- moted to the brevet rank of colonel, and received the medal with clasp. Having distinguished himself in both the naval and the military services of the country, he joined the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple in April, 1870, and was called to the bar in Easter Term, 1874, shortly after his return from the Ashantee war. On Nov. 1, 1879, the Bar of England enter- tained him at a banquet in the haU of the Middle Temple. He served throughout the Zulu war of 1879 in command of No. 4 column. As political agent he raised a con- tingent of 1000 friendly Zulus, known as " Wood's Irregulars." Two days after the British reverse at Isanlwana he surprised and de- feated a force of several thousands of the enemy, and then maintained an advanced position in the enemy's country, for which he was specially commended by the High Commis- sioner. He defeated the Zulus in the action of Kambula on March 29, and in April was made brigadier- general. He led the advance to Ulundi with a flying column, and was present in the engagement there on July 4. On his return to England he was received by the