Mark Wood

March 16, 1750 (age 78)

He received a baronetcy on 3 October 1808. Another brother was Sir James Athol Wood. He received his first commission on 7 July 1772 in the Bengal engineers, and rose to be colonel 26 February 1795. After a distinguished career in India, culminating in his appointment as surveyor-general in 1787 and chief engineer of Bengal in 1790, he returned to England on account of ill-health in 1793, and purchased the Piercefield House on the banks of the Wye. Wood entered the House of Commons for Milborne Portuguese, Somerset, in 1794. He was returned for Newark in 1796, after a severe contest with Sir William Paxton. In 1795 he was brought into the king"s service as a colonel, and in an audience he had that year with George III to present a model in ivory of Fort William, Calcutta, the king expressed to him a desire for the union of the East India Company and the royal services. In 1802 he was unsuccessful in a contest with Robert Hurst for the representation of Shaftesbury, and was in consequence returned for his pocket borough of Gatton, Surrey, the domain of which (Gatton Park) he had recently purchased. He was created a baronet on 3 October 1808. He continued to represent Gatton until the dissolution in 1818, when he retired from public life, having given a uniform support to the measures of Pitt and subsequently of Lord Liverpool. He died on 6 February 1829 at his house in Pall Mall, London. He was buried on 13 February in Gatton church, where there is a tablet to his memory. By a relationship in India with a woman of colour (not formalised under English law) he had a daughter, Maria Wood, who in 1798 married a Major James Blackwell. The estates passed to George, eldest son of Sir Mark"s second brother, Sir George Wood.

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Mark Wood was the eldest son of Alexander Wood of Perth, descended from the family of the Woods of Largo, to the estates of which Alexander succeeded on the death of his cousin, John Wood, sometime governor of the Isle of Manitoba

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He received a baronetcy on 3 October 1808. Another brother was Sir James Athol Wood. He received his first commission on 7 July 1772 in the Bengal engineers, and rose to be colonel 26 February 1795.

After a distinguished career in India, culminating in his appointment as surveyor-general in 1787 and chief engineer of Bengal in 1790, he returned to England on account of ill-health in 1793, and purchased the Piercefield House on the banks of the Wye.

Wood entered the House of Commons for Milborne Portuguese, Somerset, in 1794. He was returned for Newark in 1796, after a severe contest with Sir William Paxton.

In 1795 he was brought into the king"s service as a colonel, and in an audience he had that year with George III to present a model in ivory of Fort William, Calcutta, the king expressed to him a desire for the union of the East India Company and the royal services. In 1802 he was unsuccessful in a contest with Robert Hurst for the representation of Shaftesbury, and was in consequence returned for his pocket borough of Gatton, Surrey, the domain of which (Gatton Park) he had recently purchased.

He was created a baronet on 3 October 1808.

He continued to represent Gatton until the dissolution in 1818, when he retired from public life, having given a uniform support to the measures of Pitt and subsequently of Lord Liverpool. He died on 6 February 1829 at his house in Pall Mall, London. He was buried on 13 February in Gatton church, where there is a tablet to his memory.

By a relationship in India with a woman of colour (not formalised under English law) he had a daughter, Maria Wood, who in 1798 married a Major James Blackwell.

The estates passed to George, eldest son of Sir Mark"s second brother, Sir George Wood.

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1st United Kingdom Parliament. 2nd United Kingdom Parliament. 3rd United Kingdom Parliament.

4th United Kingdom Parliament.

5th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th Parliament of Great Britain.

18th Parliament of Great Britain]

He was a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Milborne Portuguese, Gatton and Newark.

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