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

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from 1910 to 1918 and then for

Stalybridge and Hyde Stalybridge and Hyde is a constituency in Greater Manchester that was created in 1918. The seat has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Jonathan Reynolds of the Labour and Co-operative Party since ...

from

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–

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. He was created a

baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...

, of

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, on 14 February 1918. Educated at

Rugby School Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...

and at

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, Wood was a

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, called to the bar at the

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in 1883. He married twice, firstly in 1883 to Estelle Benham. His second marriage was in 1892 to Gertrude Emily Bateman (died 1927), third daughter of the 3rd Baron Bateman; they had two sons and one daughter. His elder son, John Arthur Haigh, succeeded to the baronetcy, and his younger son

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was MP for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1924 to 1929.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20070928035535/http://usenet.lineages.co.uk/article.php?id_article=2674&grp_id=1

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* 1857 births 1951 deaths

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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Deputy lieutenants of Herefordshire UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 People from Stalybridge Members of the Inner Temple Place of birth missing People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stalybridge and Hyde {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub