Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet
Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet DL was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Stalybridge from 1910–1918 and then for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1918–1922. He was created a baronet, of Hengrave, Suffolk, on 14 February 1918.
Educated at Rugby School and at Magdalen College, Oxford, Wood was a barrister, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1883. He married twice, firstly in 1883 to Estelle Benham. His second marriage was in 1892 to Gertrude Emily Bateman, third daughter of the 3rd Baron Bateman; they had two sons and one daughter. His elder son, John Arthur Haigh, succeeded to the baronetcy, and his younger son Edmund
was MP for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1924 to 1929.
