NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Halifax, Charles Wood, Viscount, 1800-1885 NRA: Wood Charles (1800-1885) 1st Viscount Halifax statesman DNB: Wood, Charles, first Viscount Halifax (1800–1885), politician LBT ID: LdHalif1 VIAF ID: 69725853 LOC ID: n88125398 | B/BAP: 1800-12-20 DIED: 1885-08-08 |
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The son of Sir Francis Lindley Wood, baronet; educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford;
he was a Whig MP for Great Grimsby (1826-31), Warcham (1831-32), Halifax (1832-65) and
Ripon (1865-66). He was private secretary to Earl Gray and Secretary of state for India
(1858). | |