Page Wood baronets

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Coat of arms of the Wood baronets of Hatherley House

The Wood, later Page Wood Baronetcy, of Hatherley House in the County of Gloucester,[1] is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 December 1837 for Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor of London from 1815 to 1817 and Whig Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1817 to 1843. The fifth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Page.

Wood baronets, of Hatherley House (1837)

The heir apparent is the 9th Baronet's only son, Martin Wood (born 1963).

Extended family

William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1868 to 1872, was the second son of the first Baronet while Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood was the fifth son of the second Baronet. Also, Katharine O'Shea, known for her relationship with Charles Stewart Parnell, was the daughter of the second Baronet. The theosophist and political activist Annie Besant (born Annie Wood), was the great-granddaughter of the 1st Baronet's father.

Heraldry

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Arms of Woode of Hareston: Argent, on a mount in base proper an oak tree vert fructed or[9]

The 1st Baronet was descended from the Wood family of Hareston[10] in the parish of Brixton in Devon, which the family had inherited by marriage to the heiress of the Carslake family.[11] The Page-Wood baronets quarter the arms of Carslake Argent, a bull's head erased sable.[12]

See also

Notes

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  11. Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, pp. 194–5
  12. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895; quartering illustrated in: Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p. 875

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References

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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Wood baronets
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