John Gathorne Wood
(1839-1929), Chairman of Hampshire County Council Education CommitteeSitter in 1 portrait
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass negative, 16 April 1952
NPG x100511
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Charles Matthews
07 January 2020, 09:32
John Gathorne Wood, born 1839, is mentioned in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as the son of John Wood (1793-1871), manufacturer of worsted in Bradford and heavily involved from 1830 with Richard Oastler and Michael Thomas Sadler in efforts for factory reform. His father moved south in the middle of the 1830s. Most of the genealogical reference works do not mention the father's business career, certainly Victorian prudishness about trade.
John Gathorne Wood spent some time in the 17th Foot. His two marriages were to daughters of Edward Pennefeather QC and of James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford.