John Page Wood

Sir John Page Wood, 2nd Baronet (1796–1866) was an English cleric, magistrate and radical Whig, closely associated with the return in 1820 to the United Kingdom of Queen Caroline of Brunswick, and her private secretary at that period.

[2] He had two younger brothers, William Wood who was Lord Chancellor in the first Gladstone administration, and Western Wood who took a major share in the family business when their father retired in 1842, and sat in parliament as a Liberal;[3] with another brother Henry Wright who died young, and two sisters, Maria Elizabeth who married the barrister Edwin Maddy, and Catherine who married the banker Charles Stephens.

[4] John Wood was sent as a boarder to the school run in Bow, London by James Lindsay DD (1753–1821), a Scottish Presbyterian minister of Unitarian views.

[2] In 1820, while he was still an undergraduate, his father and his brother William began a diplomatic intrigue to bring Queen Caroline, at this point in Italy, back to the United Kingdom.

[3] William, expelled from Winchester College in 1818 after a protest against corporal punishment, was at this point in Geneva, in the care of Antoine Duvillard who lectured at the Auditoire de Calvin.

[11] William Wood was back in England in time to be admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 14 June 1820; nine days after Queen Caroline disembarked at Dover.

[20] Wood was ordained priest in February 1822, again by Henry Bathurst, on the same day being appointed a curate at St Margaret's Church, King's Lynn.

[2] In 1865 he chaired the election committee that succeeded in winning a place in parliament for Sir Thomas Western, 1st Baronet at the Northern Division of Essex.

[26] Wood published: Henry Christmas addressed to him Capital Punishments Unsanctioned by the Gospel and Unnecessary in a Christian State (1845), as a magistrate and priest.