Ethel Mary Wood CBE born Ethel Mary Hogg (29 June 1877 – 29 June 1970) was an advertising executive, feminist campaigner, philanthropist, bible collector, and the daughter of Quintin Hogg, a businessman who established the Regent Street Polytechnic.

Wood inherited her father’s strong religious convictions and philanthropy, serving with the London War Pensions Committee, the Winter Distress League and as governor of the Regent Street Polytechnic.

[1] She wrote a biography of her father in 1904[2] and she married Herbert (Bertie) Frederick Wood, a captain in the British army, in 1907.

[3] Wood's husband, who had survived the war, died of influenza in 1918 and she became a single mother to her daughter Clemency Meara.

She joined various feminist causes and business ventures, and was appointed to the board of directors of the advertising agency Samson Clark & Co., later owning 20% of the company.