Robert Ranulph Marett

“ Sir Henry Trueman Wood, who died yesterday , in his 84th year, at the home of his daughter, Mrs, Fisher, at Bourne End, served the Royal Society of Arts with great fidelity and sagacity for nearly half a century, was its historian adn the inspirer and guide of its steady development. A man of both literary ad scientific culture, he applied a quiet genial honour to his wide experience of men and things. ”

“ He had a talent for orderly, efficient administration. In a tenure covering nearly four decades he had the satisfaction of seeing a remarkable advance in membership, reputation, and the standard of the technical and other lectures. ”

“ He was secretary to the committee of selection and of the jury commission, and did much of the editing of catalogues and reports. He was British Commissioner of the Paris Exhibition in 1889, when, without support from the Government, the section was made self-supporting, in pursuance of a plan he prepared and not a penny of the guarantee fund was called up. In 1893, after paying two preliminary visits to the United States, Wood served as secretary of the Royal Commission for the great Chicago Exhibition, being in executive charge of the successful British section from February to October. ”