Richard Frederick Wood, Baron Holderness, PC, DL (5 October 1920 – 11 August 2002), was a British Conservative politician who held numerous ministerial positions from 1955 to 1974.

[3] He became honorary attaché at the British Embassy in Rome in 1940, and in 1941 he gained the rank of lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.

[4] He was fitted with artificial limbs and spent the next three years meeting and speaking with disabled veterans at hospitals in the United States.

[4] Wood returned to Britain in 1945 and resumed his studies at Oxford, reading politics, philosophy and economics.

[1] Wood urged Prime Minister Anthony Eden not to respond to the Suez Crisis with overt aggression, but his advice was ignored because of his father's association with appeasement and the Munich Agreement.

[4] After he retired as an MP, Wood was given a life peerage on 7 August 1979 as Baron Holderness, of Bishop Wilton in the County of Humberside.