Robert Wood (rugby union, born 1873)

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| name = Robert Wood

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| full_name = Robert Dudley Wood

| birth_date = {{birth date|1873|01|03|df=yes}}

| birth_place = West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1950|05|23|1873|01|03|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bidston, Cheshire, England

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| position = Forward

| repyears1 = 1901–03

| repteam1 = {{nrut|England}}

| repcaps1 = 3

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Robert Dudley Wood (3 January 1873 – 23 May 1950) was an English international rugby union player.

Wood was educated at Liverpool College and played senior rugby for Liverpool Old Boys.{{cite news |title=Football Gossip |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001613/19030123/210/0006 |work=Western Chronicle |date=23 January 1903}}

A forward, Wood made his representative debut for Lancashire in the 1895–96 season and was capped three times for England, which included two appearances against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, in 1901 and 1903.

Wood, a civil engineer, married a daughter of industrialist and Conservative politician Alfred Bigland.{{cite news |title=Fashionable Wedding At Oxford |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003040/19070615/089/0005 |work=Birkenhead News |date=15 June 1907}} His son Terence died in 1935 of injuries sustained while playing rugby for Old Birkonians.{{cite news |title=Rugby Game Tragedy |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000650/19351011/006/0006 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=11 October 1935}}