Malvina Evalyn Wood
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Malvina Evalyn Wood (1893–1976), university librarian and college warden, was born in Guildford, Western Australia, daughter of a railway porter.[1] Genealogy records show that the family's name was initially Shell, but was changed to Wood for unknown reasons.[2]
An announcement of Wood's engagement to Sydney Harrison appeared in The Daily News on 18 May 1914,[3] though her biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography states that she never married but had a long-term relationship with a partner who died in 1947. Wood a resident of a nursing home in Mosman Park died on 17 September 1976 the bulk of her estate valued at A$250,000 was bequeathed to St Catherine College at University of Western Australia.[1]
