WOOD (Anthony), an eminent biographer and antiquarian, was the son of Thomas Wood, bachelor of arts and of the civil law, and was born at Oxford in 1632. He studied at Merton college, and in 1655 took the degree of master of arts. He wrote, 1. The History and Antiquities
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of the University of Oxford; which was afterwards translated into Latin by Mr. Wase and Mr. Peers, under the title of Historia & Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, 2 vols. folio. 2. Albana Oxoniensis; or an exact Account of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford, from the Year 1000 to 1600, 2 vols. folio; which was greatly enlarged in a second edition published in 1721 by bishop Tanner. Upon the first publication of this work the author was attacked by the university, in defence of Edward earl of Clarendon, lord high-chancellor of England, and chancellor of the university, and was likewise animadverted upon by bishop Burnet; upon which he published a Vindication of the Historiographer of the University of Oxford. He died at Oxford of a retention of urine in 1695.