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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, 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.

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.