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Surname	Wood	Alternative Surname
First Name	Richard, of Oxford	Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished
Year of Death	1700
Biographical Details	He was the brother of Thomas Wood of Oxford. Nothing is known of his work as a stonecutter, but he was involved in parish affairs at St Mary Magdalen, Oxford and worked in civic affairs as a bailiff in the 1680s and as mayor of Oxford in 1694. In 1696 he submitted a bill to the council for a sundial he had made on the south bridge (2). Pevsner notes that the Matthew monument is a ‘broad, gristly white cartouche, rather 1665 than 1685 in style’ (1). Gunnis notes that the work is not unlike the stone tablets of William Byrd of Oxford. Literary References: Cole 1949, 65 Archival References: GPC