High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley PC, QC (29 November 1801 – 10 July 1881) was a British lawyer and statesman who served as a Liberal Lord Chancellor between 1868 and 1872 in William Ewart Gladstone's first ministry. Wood was born in London, the second son of Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, a London alderman and Lord Mayor who became famous for befriending Queen Caroline and braving George IV. Sir Evelyn Wood and Katharine O'Shea were his nephew and niece respectively. He was educated at Winchester, from which he was expelled after a revolt against the headmaster, Geneva University, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow after being 24th wrangler in 1824. Wood entered Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1824, studying conveyancing in John Tyrrell's chambers. He soon obtained a good practice as an equity draughtsman and before parliamentary committees. In 1845 he became a Queen's Counsel, and in 1847 was elected to parliament for the city of Oxford as a Liberal.

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