William Wood (1816 – 19 June 1872)
was a
British Whig politician.
Wood was first elected Whig MP for
Pontefract
Pontefract is a historic market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wake ...
in
1857
Events January–March
* January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
* January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
* Janua ...
, but stood down at the
next election in 1859.
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Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1857–1859
1816 births
1872 deaths
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