Background and Education
Born to Dennis William Wood, professor of zoology at Durham University, and Sheila Graham Wood (née Lillia), a schoolteacher. Wood was raised in Durham by his parents in an evangelical wing of the Church of England. He was educated at Durham Chorister School and Eton College, where he received a music scholarship. He read English Literature at Jesus College, Cambridge, where in 1988 he graduated with a First.
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