Ancestry and Early Life
Wood was born at Cressing near Braintree, Essex as the fifth and youngest son of Sir John Page Wood, 2nd Baronet, a clergyman. Wood was an elder brother of Katherine Parnell (Kitty O'Shea). Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, was his grandfather and Lord Chancellor William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley was an uncle. His maternal grandfather had been an admiral in the Portuguese navy. One of mother’s brothers was a British admiral and another rose to be Surveyor-General of Cape Colony.
Wood was educated at Marlborough College but ran away after an unjust beating.
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