Barrington Clarke Wood (9 May 1850 – 24 August 1903) was an Australian businessman and politician who served in both houses of the Parliament of Western Australia.
[1] His father died when he was young, and his mother remarried in 1863 to Edward Newman, who was later elected to the Legislative Council.
Wood was re-elected at the 1897 election,[3] and in 1900 replaced Frederick Piesse as Commissioner for Railways and Director of Public Works in the government of Sir John Forrest.
He attempted to re-enter parliament at the 1901 West Kimberley by-election, but lost to Sydney Pigott.
He had been walking back to his lodgings from a day at the beach when he collapsed on the roadside (presumably due to heart failure), and his body was not found until the following morning.