WOOD, WILLIAM, son of William Wood, Wakefield, Yorks.; bapt. 18 Mar 1761; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1776; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1780, adm. pens. 24 May 1780, scholar 5 May 1781; BA 1784; MA 1792; ordained deacon 1784 (Gloucester, lit. dim. from York), priest 16 Oct 1785 (York); Vicar of St. John’s, Wakefield, Yorks., 1805-25; of Woodthorpe, Yorks.; DL JP Yorkshire West Riding; d. 15 Jun 1825.
WOOD, WILLIAM HENRY; b.; adm. 14 Apr 1774.
WOOD, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1748/9.
WOOD, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1727; in under school list 1729.
WOOD, THOMAS, son of Thomas Wood, Hackney, Middlesex, Clerk of the Spicery to James I, and Susan Cranmer; bapt. 22 Jul 1607; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1627, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1627 – still 1638, matr. 1627; BA 1631; MA 1634 (incorp. Cambridge 1638); BD 1641; DD 13 Mar 1641/2; ordained; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I 1635; Rector of Whickham, co. Durham 1635-51, ejected, but restored 1660; Prebendary of Durham from 10 Dec 1660; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II 1660; Dean of Lichfield Feb 1663/4-71; consecrated Bishop of Cioventry and Lichfield 2 Jul 1671; neglected his duties and lived in a mean way at Hackney; suspended by Archbishop Sancroft for refusing to return to his diocese; a benefactor to Christ Church, Oxford; m. Grace, dau. of Sir James Clavering, Bart.; d. 18 Apr 1692.
WOOD, THOMAS LETT, brother of Charles James Wood (qv) (IGI); b. 26 Feb 1821; adm. 16 Jan 1834; KS 1835; left 1839; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Jul 1839; BA 1843; MA 1846; adm. Inner Temple 14 May 1841, called to bar 13 Jun 1851; special pleader 1846-51; Attorney-Gen., Vancouver Island 1864-6; Solicitor-Gen., British Columbia 1866-7; member Legislative Council, British Columbia 1866-70; Chief Justice of Bermuda 1872-7; Puisne Judge, Straits Settlements 1877-1907; m. 10 Oct 1859 ---, widow of George Leggatt, Guildford, Surrey, and dau. of James Laurence, Earnley, Sussex; d. 14 Sep 1909.
Wood, Stanley Llewellyn, 1866-1928
WOOD, ROBERT; b.; adm.; BB 1793-5 (Chapter Muniments). [Perhaps brother or close kin to Henry Wood, BB same dates] [Name spelled Woodd in John Smith’s cash book][Evidently Robert Woodd, son of George Woodd, and Sarah ---, bapt. Leybourne, Kent 2 Jun 1780 (IGI)] [perhaps Robert Woodd who m. at St. Martin in the Fields 31 Dec 1803 Sophia Letitia Pinkerton (IGI)] [perhaps Robert Woodd, b. 17 Apr 1780, entered Royal Navy 1793 (sic), Cdr. 1844]
WOOD, RICHARD; b.; in under school lists 1715, 1716; his commonplace book, now in Bodleian Library, Oxford, records that he had three narrow escapes from drowning in the Thames in 1717, and that in 1718, while playing at “tagg” with William Berners (at school 1718, qv), he fell off the garden wall; lived chiefly in London and Bath; living 1791.
WOOD, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Wood (adm. 1723, qv); b. 17 Mar 1745/6; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1791); articled as Clerk in Exchequer 1762, resigned 1773; of Hollin Hall, Yorkshire; DL JP Yorkshire West Riding; m. 3 May 1774 Delia, only dau. of Capt. Thomas Schaak, Askham Bryan, Yorks. ; d. 8 Dec 1815, aged 71.