John Thomas Wood (1849-1932)

John Thomas Wood (1849-1932), Chairman of Francis Morton and Co

1849 March 5th. Born at Aspull, near Wigan, the son of William Wood, Farmer, and his wife Mary

1885 Mentioned as 'Superintendent of Sewage' in Liverpool.

1891 Mention as late borough engineer of Cambridge.

1892 John Alexander Brodie entered into partnership with Mr. John T. Wood, M. Inst. C.E., as a consulting engineer, and was responsible for carrying out a number of water and sewerage schemes and for the construction of docks, light railways, destructors and pumping stations.

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1932 Obituary

WE have to announce with regret that Mr. John T. Wood, chairman of Francis Morton and Co., Ltd., of Garston, until June last, died on December 15th.

Mr. Wood was born in 1849 at Aspull, near Wigan, and at eighteen years of age was articled to the late Mr. James Newlands, City Engineer of Liverpool.

In 1887 he became Borough Engineer of Cambridge, and after some years relinquished that position to take up private practice in Liverpool, where, later, he was joined in partnership by Mr. John A. Brodie, the late City Engineer and now Joint engineer of the Mersey tunnel scheme, which partnership terminated on Mr. Brodie being appointed City Engineer in 1898.

Subsequently, Mr. A. F. Fowler joined Mr. Wood, and they constructed several docks for Laird Brothers at Birkenhead. In conjunction with the late Mr. J. J. Webster, he was engineer for the Transporter Bridge at Widnes, erected in 1904-5.

Mr. Wood, along with several other prominent Liverpool and Manchester gentlemen, purchased the business of Francis Morton and Co., Ltd., in June 1898, of which company he succeeded as chairman, the late Colonel G. H. Morrison, of Messrs. Turner and Co., Dale-street, Liverpool, in 1901, and continued in that position until June, 1932, when he retired owing to ill health.

He was always greatly interested in farming and agricultural work, and was one of the founders with the late Lord Derby of the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society. He was also a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and was one of a number of delegate British farmers who visited Canada in 1890 at the invitation of the Canadian Government to report upon the agricultural conditions of the Dominion.

He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Past-President of the Liverpool Engineering Society.

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