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Henry Walter Wood (ca. 1825 - 3 September 1869) was an English architect based in Nottingham.


Career

He was born around 1825 in Nottingham, the son of architect and surveyor
Henry Moses Wood Henry Moses Wood (1788–28 September 1867) was an architect based in Nottingham. Career He studied in the practice of Edward Staveley, and continued the business after Staveley's death in 1837. One of his pupils, William Booker established ...
. He trained as an architect in his father's practice. He married Frances Mary Crofts, daughter of William Crofts of Lenton, at
Holy Trinity Church, Lenton Holy Trinity Church, Lenton is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Southwell. The church is Grade II* listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a particularly significant building of more than local ...
on 21 May 1857. They had three children: *Mary Nina Wood (1858-1905) *Philip Crofts Wood (b. 1859) *Charles Henry Wood (1860-1861) In 1866, Henry Walter Wood petitioned for divorce on the grounds of her adultery with George Eaton Stanger, surgeon and deacon at Castle Gate Congregational Chapel. The trial in 1867 lasted 3 days and Henry was awarded £3,000 () in damages. He continued in practice in Nottingham and was also the manager of the Nottingham and Derbyshire Insurance Company. He died in Llandudno on 3 September 1869.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Henry Walter 1820s births 1869 deaths Architects from Nottingham