Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet DL (8 September 1857 – 28 January 1951)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stalybridge from 1910 to 1918 and then for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1918–1922. He was created a baronet, of Hengrave, Suffolk, on 14 February 1918.
Educated at Rugby School and at Magdalen College, Oxford, Wood was a barrister, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1883. He married twice, firstly in 1883 to Estelle Benham. His second marriage was in 1892 to Gertrude Emily Bateman (died 1927), third daughter of the 3rd Baron Bateman; they had two sons and one daughter. His elder son, John Arthur Haigh, succeeded to the baronetcy, and his younger son Edmund[2] was MP for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1924 to 1929.
References
[edit]- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
- ^ "The Hon. Lady Wood". The Times. London. 16 March 1927. p. 18, col E. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
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- 1857 births
- 1951 deaths
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Deputy lieutenants of Herefordshire
- UK MPs 1910–1918
- UK MPs 1918–1922
- People from Stalybridge
- Members of the Inner Temple
- People educated at Rugby School
- Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stalybridge and Hyde
- Conservative MP for England, 1850s birth stubs