Men-at-the-Bar/Wood, Charles

by Joseph Foster

Wood, Charles, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1854, resident legal assistant land commissioner since 1878, assistant tithe and inclosure commissioner 1864, assistant copyhold commissioner 1870, chairman of the Epping Forest Commission 1871-8, a student of the lnner Temple 28 Feb., 1850 (then aged 21), called to the bar 30 April, 1853, admitted a barrister of Lincoln's Inn ad eundem 21 Jan., 1860 (3rd son of John G. Wood, of York, attorney-at-law, coroner for York and the county); born 4 Aug., 1828; married 7 Aug., 1862, Sarah Sophia, 3rd dau. of late Benjamin Hooke, Esq., of Norton Hall, co. Worc., and has issue.

5, St. Stephen's Square, W.; Land Commission, 3, St. James' Square, S.W.

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