Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet

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 1910–1918 and then for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1918–1922. 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.

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
  2. "The Hon. Lady Wood". The Times. London. 16 March 1927. p. 18, col E. Retrieved 21 January 2011.

Sources
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Frederick Cheetham		 Member of Parliament for Stalybridge
Jan. 1910 – 1918		 constituency abolished
(see Stalybridge & Hyde)
New constituency
 Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde
1918 – 1922		 Succeeded by
John Rhodes
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Hengrave)
1918–1951		 Succeeded by
John Arthur Haigh Wood


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