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Alfred Wood (cricketer)
English cricketer
Alfred Herbert Wood (23 April — 19 April ) was an English first-class cricketer who was private secretary to Arthur Conan Doyle for 29 years.
The son of Robert Wood, he was born at Portsmouth in April He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School,[1] before matriculating on an open mathematics scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford.[2] After graduating from Oxford, he returned to Portsmouth to become an assistant master at Portsmouth Grammar School.[1] Wood was a close friend of the writer Arthur Conan Doyle, having met him in between and , when Conan Doyle was practicing as an oculist in Portsmouth.
In , he left his employment as an assistant master to become Conan Doyle's private secretary and business manager, positions he would hold until his retirement in Following Conan Doyle's death in July , Wood was bequeathed £ per year by him.[1]
Wood played club cricket for both the Hampshire Hogs