John Wood of Keele was an English politician. He was elected MP for

Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-under-Lyme ( RP: , ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census population of the town was 75,082, whilst the wider borough had a population of 1 ...

in 1425, served in the parliaments of 1427/8, 1431, 1432 and 1433, and was Escheator for

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in 1437. Wood's son John Wood was also MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1472–1475. Wood's daughter Elizabeth married Robert Boughey in 1447. Wood may have died before 1443, when the lands of John Wood of

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were transferred to the king, or he may have been alive at the time of his daughter's marriage in 1447 (he is not described as dead), and he may have been Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1458.

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