WOOD, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1738/9 (Hutton's); left 1744.
WOOD, WILLIAM; b. 5 Apr 1808; adm. 20 Sep 1821 (Best's).
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, 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, Richard Humphrey Vellacott, 1916-1943
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, 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, 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 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.