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Born: 29 November 1801, London

Died: 10 July 1881

1st Baron Hatherley - 9 December 1868

Knighted - 1851

Member of Privy Council - 1868

husband of Charlotte Moor

Winchester College

Woodbridge School, Suffolk

Geneva University

Trinity College, Cambridge

Lincoln's Inn

Solicitor General	1851	1852
Lord Chancellor	9 December 1868	15 October 1872

29 July 1847	Oxford	Radical	Unopposed
1851 Resignation of William Wood on appointment as Solicitor-General.
3 April 1851	Oxford	Radical	Unopposed
6 July 1852	Oxford	Radical	Unopposed
1852 Resignation of Sir William Wood on appointment as a Vice-Chancellor of the High Court.