Robert Wood (10 August 1792 – 13 April 1847), was a Canadian timber merchant and shipowner inaccurately alleged to be the son of Prince Edward Augustus and his mistress, Madame de Saint-Laurent.
Recent scholarship (particularly by Mollie Gillen, who was granted access to the Royal Archive at Windsor Castle)[1] has established that no children were born of the 27-year relationship between Edward Augustus and Madame de Saint-Laurent; although many Canadian families and individuals (including the Nova Scotian soldier Sir William Fenwick Williams, 1st Baronet)[2] have claimed descent from them, such claims can now be discounted in light of this new research.
Subsequently appointed doorkeeper of the Executive Council, and later a merchant, he died in 1806, survived by seven children, Robert junior being the eldest.
At some time around the end of 1846 or early 1847, Wood visited the West Indies to benefit his health; this failed to do any good, and he died in April of that year.
[5] He was survived by his wife, Charlotte (née Gray), daughter of a military clerk, whom he had married in 1817 and with whom he had eleven children.