Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Wood (schoolmaster)


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The result was: promoted by MrClog (talk) 19:02, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Joseph Wood (schoolmaster), Thomas Thackeray

 * ... that when Wood (pictured) was appointed as head master of Harrow School, he was by far the oldest to be appointed since the retirement of Thackeray in 1760? Source: Christopher Tyerman, A History of Harrow School, 1324–1991 (Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 371 and p. 115.
 * Reviewed: Lydia Manley Henry and Knüffeln

Created by Moonraker (talk). Self-nominated at 03:58, 8 May 2019 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg These two articles are new enough and long enough. The image is in the public domain, the hook facts are cited inline, the articles are neutral and I detected no copyright issues. Two QPQs have been done. I have changed the word "death" in the hook to "retirement" as being more appropriate. Could you add a citation for their dates of birth to avoid this being tagged "citation needed". Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:19, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , that's done for Thackeray. For Wood, I can't do better than the citation from Alumni Oxonienses that he was eighteen in April 1861, so I have made his date of birth "c. 1842". Moonraker (talk) 19:40, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:55, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Have now found a source for 1841. Moonraker (talk) 08:04, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg Adding another tick to confirm that this nomination is good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:31, 15 June 2019 (UTC)