The Wood, later Page Wood Baronetcy, of Hatherley House in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the

Baronetage of the United Kingdom Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James ...

. It was created on 16 December 1837 for Matthew Wood,

Lord Mayor of London The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional pow ...

from 1815 to 1817 and Whig

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for the

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from 1817 to 1843. The fifth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Page. Two other members of the family have also gained distinction.

William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, PC (29 November 1801 – 10 July 1881) was a British lawyer and statesman who served as a Liberal Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1868 and 1872 in William Ewart Gladstone's first ministry ...

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from 1868 to 1872, was the second son of the first Baronet while

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Sir Evelyn Wood was the fifth son of the second Baronet. Also,

Katharine O'Shea Katharine Parnell (née Wood; 30 January 1846 – 5 February 1921), known before her second marriage as Katharine O'Shea, and usually called Katie O'Shea by friends and Kitty O'Shea by enemies, was an English woman of aristocratic background ...

, known for her relationship with

Charles Stewart Parnell Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891, also acting as Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882 and then Leader of t ...

, was the daughter of the second Baronet. The theosophist and political activist

Annie Besant Annie Besant ( Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights activist, educationist, writer, orator, political party member and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human ...

(born Annie Wood), was the great-granddaughter of the 1st Baronet's father. The 1st Baronet was descended from the Wood family of Hareston in the parish of

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in Devon, which the family had inherited by marriage to the heiress of the Carslake family. The Page-Wood baronets quarter the arms of Carslake ''Argent, a bull's head erased sable''.

Wood baronets, of Hatherley House (1837)

Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet (2 June 1768 – 25 September 1843) was a British Whig politician and was Lord Mayor of London from 1815 to 1817. Early life Matthew Wood was the son of William Wood (died 1809), a serge maker from Exeter and Ti ...

(1768–1843) *Rev Sir John Page Wood, 2nd Baronet (1796–1866) *Sir Francis Wood, 3rd Baronet (1834–1868) *

Sir Matthew Wood, 4th Baronet Sir Matthew Wood, 4th Baronet (29 September 1857 – 13 July 1908) was an English first-class cricketer. Wood was a right-handed batsman who was an underarm slow bowler, though with which arm he bowled with is unknown. The son of Sir Fra ...

(1857–1908) *Sir John Page Wood, 5th Baronet (1860–1912) *Sir John Stuart Page Wood, 6th Baronet (1898–1955) *Sir John Hatherley David Page Wood, 7th Baronet (1921–1955) *Sir Anthony John Page Wood, 8th Baronet (born 1951)

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, *
Painting of Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, at the National Portrait Gallery
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Wood baronets, of Hatherley House (1837)

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