Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet

British politician and baronet
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IntroBritish politician and baronet
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasPolitician
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Birth8 September 1857
Death28 January 1951 (aged 93 years)
Star signVirgo
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Biography

Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet. (8 September 1857 – 28 January 1951) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) 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 Arthur Haigh, succeeded to the baronetcy, and his younger son Edmund was MP for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1924 to 1929.

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