Editing Henry Wood (section)

==Honours, memorials and reputation==
In addition to the knighthood bestowed in 1911, Wood's state honours were his appointments as [[Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour]] in the [[1944 Birthday Honours|1944 King's Birthday Honours List]], to the [[Order of the Crown (Belgium)|Order of the Crown]] (Belgium; 1920), and [[Officer of the Legion of Honour]] (France; 1926). He received honorary doctorates from five English universities and was a fellow of both the Royal Academy of Music (1920) and the [[Royal College of Music]] (1923).<ref name=jacobs465>Jacobs, p. 465</ref>
In March 1963, The Henry Wood Concert Society (in association with The Henry Wood Memorial Trust) presented The Henry Wood Memorial Concert. The concert was held at the Royal Albert Hall, London and conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent in the presence of H.R.H. The Duchess of Gloucester.

[[File:The Henry Wood Hall (former Holy Trinity Church) - geograph.org.uk - 847582.jpg|thumb|left|alt=exterior shot of a neo-classical church used as a rehearsal space|[[Henry Wood Hall, London|Henry Wood Hall]] in [[Southwark]], south London]]
Jacobs lists 26&nbsp;compositions dedicated to Wood, including, in addition to the Vaughan Williams ''Serenade to Music'', works by Elgar, Delius, Bax, [[Marcel Dupré]] and Walton.<ref name=jacobs465/> The [[Poet Laureate]], [[John Masefield]], composed a poem of six verses in his honour, entitled "Sir Henry Wood", often referred to by its first line, "Where does the uttered music go?". Walton set it to music as an anthem for mixed choir; it received its first performance on 26 April 1946 at St Sepulchre's, on the occasion of a ceremony unveiling a memorial stained-glass window in Wood's honour.<ref>[http://www.williamwalton.net/works/choral/where_does_the_uttered_music_go.html "Where does the uttered Music go?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121021947/http://www.williamwalton.net/works/choral/where_does_the_uttered_music_go.html |date=21 November 2008 }}, WilliamWalton.net. Retrieved 21 November 2010</ref>

Wood is commemorated in the name of the [[Henry Wood Hall, London|Henry Wood Hall]], the deconsecrated Holy Trinity Church in [[Southwark]], which was converted to a rehearsal and recording venue in 1975.<ref>[http://www.hwh.co.uk/history.htm "History"], Henry Wood Hall. Retrieved 20 November 2010</ref> His bust stands upstage centre in the Royal Albert Hall during the whole of each Prom season, decorated by a [[laurel wreath|chaplet]] on the Last Night of the Proms. His collection of 2,800&nbsp;orchestral scores and 1,920&nbsp;sets of parts is now in the library of the Royal Academy of Music.<ref>[http://www.ram.ac.uk/library "Library"], Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved 21 November 2010; Herbage, Julian, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/olddnb/37001 "Wood, Sir Henry Joseph"], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography archive, 1959. Retrieved 14 November 2010 {{subscription}}; and Cox, p. 56</ref> For the Academy he also established the Henry Wood Fund, giving financial aid to students.<ref name=dnbarchive/> The [[University of Strathclyde]] named a building at its [[Jordanhill College|Jordanhill campus]] after him.<ref>[http://www.strath.ac.uk/maps/sirhenrywoodbuilding/ "Sir Henry Wood Building,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205181351/http://www.strath.ac.uk/maps/sirhenrywoodbuilding/ |date=5 December 2010 }} University of Strathclyde. Retrieved 1 January 2011</ref> His best-known memorial is the Proms, officially "the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts",<ref>Jacobs, pp. 127–28</ref> but universally referred to by the informal short version.{{refn|The histories of the concerts by Cox and Orga both use the short form in their titles.|group= n}}

His biographer Arthur Jacobs wrote of Wood:
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His orchestral players affectionately nicknamed him "Timber" – more than a play on his name, since it seemed to represent his reliability too. His tally of first performances, or first performances in Britain, was heroic: at least 717&nbsp;works by 357&nbsp;composers. Greatness as measured by finesse of execution may not be his, particularly in his limited legacy of recordings, but he remains one of the most remarkable musicians Britain has produced.<ref name=grove/>
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