Thomas Wood (1708–1799)

Thomas Wood FRS (25 September 1708 - 25 June 1799),[1] was a British politician. A member of the British Whig Party, he was Member of Parliament for Middlesex from 1779 to 1780.[1] He was from Littleton (then in Middlesex, now Surrey) from the later military Wood family.[2][3]

He married Elizabeth Jones and was grandfather of Thomas Wood (1777-1860).

He was a barrister, later made Treasurer of the Inner Temple.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1761.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)
  2. ↑ Burke, John (1847). Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, Volume 2. H. Colburn. p. 1627.
  3. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1911) Subscribed Source on descendent Sir David Edward Wood, see Littleton
  4. ↑ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
John Glynn
John Wilkes		 Member of Parliament for Middlesex
1779-1780
With: John Wilkes		 Succeeded by
John Wilkes
George Byng


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