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Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet

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 19181922. He was created a baronet, of Hengrave, Suffolk, on 14 February 1918.

John Wood (1857-1951) photographed c.1911 or earlier

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.


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  1. "The Hon. Lady Wood". The Times. London. 16 March 1927. p. 18, col E. Retrieved 21 January 2011.

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