Zachary Taylor Wood
Zachary Taylor Wood( November 27, 1860 – January 15, 1915) was an American- born Assistant Commissioner with the North- West Mounted Police( NWMP) and Commissioner of the Yukon Territory of Canada.
Charles Carroll Wood
Charles Taylor Wood DSO CD (b. c.1874-11 November 1899) was a Canadian army officer, a lieutenant who was the first Canadian to die in the Second Boer War in South Africa.
He is the namesake of Chaswood, Nova Scotia.
Charles Taylor Wood was the youngest of eleven children of Captain John Taylor Wood and his wife.
A former US Navy officer, John Wood had sympathized with his grandmother's southern family.
After the American Civil War began, he resigned his commission and became a Captain in the Confederate States Navy.
He was the great-grandson of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (1849-1850).
Wood's family were based in Bedford, England for a number of years and Wood was educated at the Bedford Modern School in England (1886-89).
He then enrolled at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
His student number at RMC Kingston was 352 and he graduated in 1896.
Wood joined the army and served with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
He died on 11 Nov 1899 of wounds suffered in action during the South Africa Anglo Boer War.
He was the first Canadian Officer to fall in battle during the Boer War.
He is commemorated on the RMC Memorial Arch.
His oldest brother, Zachary Taylor Wood CMG (1860–1915) was acting Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and Commissioner of the Yukon Territory of Canada.
His nephew Stuart Taylor Wood later served as Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Harold Taylor (educator)
Dr. Harold A. Taylor( 1914–1993) was the president of Sarah Lawrence College, known for his writing on education and philosophy, and his stand against McCarthyism's interference with American education.
Hakon Sweynson
Hakon Sweynson was the only son of Sweyn Godwinson, brother of Harold II of England.
Leslie Butler (musician)
Leslie Butler is a Jamaican musician.
He is the older brother of Harold Butler.
MacCallum Grant
MacCallum Grant (May 17, 1845 – February 23, 1928) was a Canadian businessman and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
Born at Loyal Hill (in the area of Summerville) in Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of John Nutting and Margaret (MacCallum)
Grant, Grant was educated in Newport, Nova Scotia.
He commenced his business career with S. A. White & Co, in 1873.
He was a member of the firm Black Bros. Co. from 1875 to 1893.
He then formed the firm Grant, Oxley & Company.
Grant, Oxley & Company merged with Alfred J. Bell & Co. Ltd. in 1964 and still operates today under the name of Bell & Grant Insurance.
In 1899 he was appointed as Imperial Consul of Germany in Halifax.
From 1916 to 1925, he served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
He was Lieutenant Governor (Canada) at the time of the Halifax Explosion.
During the 1919 visit to Nova Scotia by Edward VIII as Prince of Wales, Grant hosted the royal party at Government House
(Nova Scotia).
He married Laura MacNeill Parker (a daughter of Daniel McNeill Parker) in 1887.
They had five children:
He received honorary degrees from Acadia University (LL.D.) in 1919 and from the University of King's College (D.C.L.) in 1921.
A portrait of the Honourable MacCallum Grant by Henry Harris Brown was donated to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2006 by Grant's granddaughter, Margaret H. Grant.
The portrait was unveiled by the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, the Honourable Myra Freeman.
The portrait is on loan to Government House (Nova Scotia) and can be viewed there in the ballroom.
He died in Halifax in 1928.
Harold Taylor Wood Grant
Vice-Admiral Harold Taylor Wood Grant (March 16, 1899 – May 8, 1965) was a Canadian naval officer and a post-war Chief of the Naval Staff.
The son of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, MacCallum Grant, Harold Grant entered the Royal Canadian Navy as a cadet in 1914.
He spent most of the First World War in training until 1917, when he became a midshipman aboard a British Royal Navy ship.
Considered an above average officer, he was earmarked for early promotion during the interwar period and by 1938, commanded the destroyer .
During the Second World War, Grant was sent to command the British cruisers and as training in preparation for the Canadian acquisition of the ship type later in the war.
During his time in command of "Enterprise", he took part in the Battle of the Bay of Biscay, earning his DSO, the Invasion of Normandy and Bombardment of Cherbourg where he was wounded.
He then commanded the Canadian cruiser until war's end.
Following the war, Grant served as a staff officer and deputy to the Chief of the Naval Staff, Howard E. Reid.
Grant succeeded Reid as Chief of the Naval Staff on September 1, 1947 and was made vice admiral.
He commanded the Royal Canadian Navy through the early years of the Cold War and the Korean War, during which a series of personnel unrest, the restructuring of the navy, and the beginning of the anti-submarine warfare specialisation took place.
Grant retired from the navy on December 1, 1951.
Stuart Wood
Stuart Zachary Taylor Wood, CMG( October 17, 1889 – January 4, 1966) served as the ninth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from March 6, 1938 to April 30, 1951.
Frank Harold Taylor
Lieutenant Frank Harold Taylor (11 August 1896—7 June 1985) was a Canadian-born flying ace.
During World War I, he was credited with ten aerial victories.
Harold Taylor (footballer)
Harold Taylor( 1912 –" unknown") was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Liverpool and Stoke City.

Question: Where was the place of death of Harold Taylor Wood Grant's father?
Answer: Halifax