Social Victorians/People/Halifax

Also Known As

• Family name: Wood
• Viscount Halifax
  • Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (21 February 1866 – 8 August 1885)
  • Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (8 August 1885 – 19 January 1934)
• Viscountess Halifax
  • Mary Grey Wood (21 February 1866 – 6 July 1884)
  • Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay Wood (8 August 1885 – 4 July 1919)
• Dowager Viscountess Halifax

Demographics

• Nationality: English

Family

• Mary Grey Wood (3 May 1807 – 6 July 1884)
• Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (20 December 1800 – 8 August 1885)
  1. Hon. Blanche Edith Wood ( – 21 July 1921)
  2. Hon. Alice Louisa Wood ( – 3 June 1934)
  3. Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (7 June 1839 – 19 January 1934)
  4. Hon. Emily Charlotte Wood (1840 – 21 December 1904)
  5. Captain Hon. Francis Lindley Wood (17 October 1841 – 14 October 1873)
  6. Lt.-Col. Hon. Henry John Lindley Wood (12 Jan 1843 – 5 Jan 1903)
  7. Hon. Frederick George Lindley Meynell (4 June 1846 – 4 November 1910)

• Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (7 June 1839 – 19 January 1934)
• Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay Wood (1 May 1838 – 4 July 1919)

1. Charles Reginald Lindley Wood (7 July 1870 – dvp. 6 September 1899)
2. Alexandra Mary Elizabeth Wood (25 August 1871 – 10 March 1965)
3. Francis Hugh Lindley Wood (21 September 1873 – dvp. 17 March 1889)
4. Mary Agnes Wood (25 March 1877 – 25 March 1962)
5. Henry Paul Lindley Wood (25 Jan 1879 – dvp. 6 June 1886)
6. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax (1881–1959)

• Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax (1881–1959)
• Dorothy

Another Wood Family

• Edward Wood (1833 – )
• Isabella Annie Boileau ( – 1871)
  1. Gordon Edward Boileau Wood (1866 – )
  2. Other issue as well

Timeline

1829 July 30, Charles Wood and Mary Grey married.

1869 April 22, Charles Lindley Wood and Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay married.

1897 July 2, Gordon Wood attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Gordon Edward Boileau Wood (at 234) was among the Suite of Men in the "Oriental" procession. The Gentlewoman says, "Messrs Gordon Wood and Wilfred Wilson were attendants on [George Keppel's] King Solomon," wearing "green silk tunics elaborately embroidered in gold and studs, with cloaks embroidered and lined with white; jewelled headdreses, swords."

Notes and Questions

1. DVP is decessit vita patris, died while his father was still living.
2. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax, wasn't promoted to Earl until 11 July 1944.
3. Four slightly difficult-to-identify men were among the Suite of Men in the "Oriental" procession: Gordon Wood, Arthur B. Portman, Wilfred Wilson, and Hon. Algernon Bourke. The identification of Gordon Wood and Wilfred Wilson is high because of contemporary newspaper accounts; the Hon. Algernon Bourke is not difficult to identify at all; Arthur Portman appears in a number of similar newspaper accounts, but none of them mentions his family of origin.