George Arnold Wood
English Australian historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Arnold Wood was an English Australian historian notable for writing an early work on Australian history entitled The Discovery of Australia. Wood was born at Salford, England; he was educated at Owens College, Manchester, where he graduated B.A., and afterwards at Balliol College, Oxford, where in 1886 he won the Brackenbury history scholarship and in 1889 the Stanhope history essay prize. In 1891 he became Challis Professor of history at the University of Sydney and held this chair for the remainder of his life. Before coming to Australia his chief study had been in English and European history, but he soon developed an interest in the early days of Australia and did valuable research on this period.
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