John Wood (UK politician)
Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet. (
8 September 1857 –
28 January 1951) was a
British Conservative politician who served as
Member of Parliament for
Stalybridge from 1910–1918 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, succeded to the baronetcy.
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