William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley

William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley PC ( born November 29, 1801 in London, † July 10, 1881 ) was a British statesman and jurist.

Life

William Page Wood, born as the second son of the baronet Sir Matthew Wood, long-time representative of the City in Parliament, was educated at Winchester, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827 admitted at Lincoln's Inn on the legal profession and was from 1847 to 1852 for Oxford Member of the House, in which he joined the liberal Party.

From 1849 to 1851 he was Vice - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1851-52 solicitor general and held on the Office of the Vice Chancellor of the High Court of Justice, which is in fact the President of the Chancery Division of this Court.

1868 Wood resigned as Lord Chancellor in the Ministry Gladstone and was, as he had to preside as such the House of Lords as Baron Hatherley raised to the peer.

In October 1872 he resigned because of eye weakness and died on 10 July 1881. His title became extinct with his death, as his marriage remained childless.

Politically liberal, Hatherley belonged to the church- orthodox party, as his writing proves: Continuity of Scripture as a declared by the testimony of our Lord ( 4th ed 1870).