Mary Wood, Viscountess Halifax (3 May 1807 – 6 July 1884),
formerly Mary Grey, was an English noblewoman. She was the wife of
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (20 December 1800 – 8 August 1885), known as Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Baronet, between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whigs (British political party), Whig politician and Member of the Parliament. He was Chancel ...
, and the mother of
Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax.
She was born the fifth and youngest surviving daughter of
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.
She married Charles Wood, MP, on 30 July 1829,
and they had seven children:
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Hon Blanche Edith Wood (d. 21 July 1921), who married Colonel the Hon Henry William Lowry-Corry (1845–1927) and had children
* Hon Alice Louisa Wood (d. 3 June 1934), who married the
Hon. John Charles Dundas, MP, and had children
[Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Volume 2, page 1728-9]
*
Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839–1934), who married Lady Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay and had children
* Hon
Emily Charlotte Wood (1840–1904), who married
Hugo Francis Meynell-Ingram (1822–1871) and had no children
*
Capt
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Hon Francis Lindley Wood,
RN (1841–1873)
*
Lt Col Hon Henry John Lindley Wood (1843–1903), who married Laura Adeline Thellusson and had one child
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* Fredrick George Lindley Wood (later Meynell) (1846–1910), who married Lady Mary Susan Félicie Lindsay and had children
The family had residences at Belgrave Square in London and Hickleton Hall in South Yorkshire. In 1878 Viscountess Halifax was admitted by ]Queen Victoria
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to the Imperial Order of the Crown of India
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, which was instituted in that year.
Viscountess Halifax died at the age of 76. Her husband outlived her by one year, and was succeeded by their eldest son.
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1807 births
1884 deaths
19th-century English nobility
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Companions of the Order of the Crown of India
Daughters of British earls
British viscountesses
Children of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey