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WOOD, RICHARD, third son of John Wood, Hollin Hall, Ripon, Yorks., barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Frances, widow of Thomas Ingram, Barrowby, Garforth, Yorks., and dau. of John Nicholson MD, West Herrington, co. Durham; b. 25 Aug 1712; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1723; in school list 1728; articled as Clerk in Exchequer 1728 (?); Sworn Clerk 1737 (still 1774), Second Secondary (occurs 1780-3) and First Secondary, King’s Remembrancer’s Office, Exchequer; m. 13 Jun 1745 Elizabeth, second dau. of Hutton Perkins, Mill Hill, Middlesex, Secretary to Earl of Hardwicke when Lord Chancellor; d. 24 Sep 1797.

Wood, Richard Humphrey Vellacott, son of Richard Benjamin Wood, architect, of Ealing, and Eleanor Duidge, d. of Humphrey Vellacott of Upminster, Essex; b. 26 June 1916; adm. May 1930 (A); left July 1933; Wadham Coll. Oxf., matric. 1934; taught English in Prague and worked for Brit. Council in Palermo; Intell. Corps in WW2 (Lieut.); killed in action on special duty (Med.) Sept. 1943.

Richard Humphrey Vellacott “Pat” Wood was born in Middlesex on the 26th of June 1916 the only son of Richard Benjamin Wood, an architect, and Eleanor Doidge (nee Vellacott) Wood of 4, Charlton Gardens, Ealing in Middlesex, later of Creech St Michael in Somerset. He was christened at St John’s Church, Ealing on the 12th of October 1916. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from May 1930 to July 1933. He matriculated for Wadham College, Oxford in 1934 where he was awarded a BA. On leaving university he taught English in Prague. He worked for the British Council at Palermo and was later appointed as a Doctor of the Institute of Palermo. Following Italy’s entry into the war in June 1940 he returned to England where he attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps on the 7th of June 1941.
In September 1943 he was specially selected for an operation in Italy during which he went missing and was later reported to have lost his life.
He is commemorated on the Cassino Memorial Panel 23.

WOOD, LAWRENCE, eldest son of Richard Wood, St. James, Clerkenwell, London, and Margaret --- (IGI); b. 11 Dec 1701 (IGI); adm. (aged 16) Jan 1718/9; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 May 1720, matr. 1720; adm. Inner Temple 1 Sep 1721.

WOOD, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1719; in under school list 1721.

WOOD, JOHN, son of John Wood FRCS LSA, Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London, surgeon; b. 28 Dec 1867; adm. 23 Sep 1880 (R); left May 1884; King’s Coll. Hospital; LRCP 1893; medical practitioner at Walmer, Kent; d. 3 Sep 1961.

WOOD, JOHN RYLE, eighth son of Samuel Wood, Prestbury, Cheshire; b. 5 Jun 1806; adm. 14 Sep 1818 (Best's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1824; BA 1827; MA 1828; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1839-44; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Dec 1825; ordained deacon (Ely) 1829, priest (Chichester) 1830; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Cambridge 1832, William IV 3 Jan – Jun 1837, and to Queen Adelaide 20 Jun 1837; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria from 20 Jun 1837; Prebendary of Worcester from 23 Oct 1841; Vicar of St. John’s, Worcester 1841-81; Master of St. Oswald’s Hospital, Worcester, from 1872; Proctor in Convocation for Dean and Chapter of Worcester 1874, 1880; m. 7 Nov 1843 Marianne Elizabeth, sister of Edward Winnington-Ingram (qv); d. 16 Nov 1886. [Was his mother Sarah, dau. of John Ryle, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk manufacturer ?]

WOOD, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 11) Nov 1733.

Wood, Hugh Noel, brother of Arthur Edward Francis Wood (q.v.); b. Dec. 24, 1891; adm. as K.S. Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1910; in the Ceylon Police; d. 16 Dec. 1978.

WOOD, HENRY; b.; adm.; BB 1793-5 (Chapter Muniments). [Perhaps brother or close kin to Robert Wood, BB same dates]. [perhaps “Woodd, senior” in John Smith’s cash book][Evidently Henry Woodd, son of George Woodd, and Sarah ---, bapt. Leybourne, Kent 14 Feb 1782 (IGI)] [note Henry Woodd, Lieut. 17th Foot 24 Jul 1804 (still in Army List 1814]

WOOD, HENRY ORME, son of Lieut. -Col. Samuel Wood CB, Hoddesdon, Herts., EICS Bengal, and Ann Cox; b. 17 Jan 1815; adm. 13 Jun 1827 (G); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 3 Nov 1832; BA 1837; MA 1840; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1840, priest 6 Jun 1841 (both London); d. in Guernsey 18 Apr 1864.