Edmund Walter Hanbury Wood (16 November 1898 – 12 December 1947) was a British

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politician. Born in London, Wood was the younger son of

Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet DL (8 September 1857 – 28 January 1951) 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. ...

(1857–1951), by his second wife Gertrude (died 1927), who was the third daughter of the second Lord Bateman. He was educated at Stubbington House School and

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, and the

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. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1917 at the height of the

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, receiving a commission in the

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. He left the army in 1920 with the rank of major. He was elected at the 1924 general election as the

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(MP) for Stalybridge and Hyde, but was defeated at the 1929 general election and did not stand for parliament again. Wood was the chairman of the

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, and in 1932 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the representation of Westminster St Georges on the

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. A member of the minority party on the council, the Conservative-backed

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, he was chief whip of the party from 1937 to 1940. He stood down from the council at the 1946 election. He died at his home, Hengrave Lodge near

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, aged 49, after a long illness.

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* 1898 births 1947 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst UK MPs 1924–1929 Younger sons of baronets People educated at Stubbington House School Members of London County Council People educated at Eton College British Life Guards officers Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stalybridge and Hyde {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1890s-stub