Sir Mark Wood, 1st Baronet (16 March 1750 – 6 February 1829)[1] was a British army officer and engineer.
After a distinguished career in India, culminating in his appointment as surveyor-general in 1787 and chief engineer of Bengal in 1790, he returned to England on account of ill-health in 1793, and purchased Piercefield House on the banks of the Wye.
Wood entered the House of Commons for Milborne Port, Somerset, in 1794; he was returned for Newark in 1796, after a severe contest with Sir William Paxton.
He continued to represent Gatton until the dissolution in 1818, when he retired from public life, having given a uniform support to the measures of Pitt and subsequently of Lord Liverpool.
By a relationship in India with a woman of colour (not formalised under English law) he had a daughter, Maria Wood,[5] who in 1798 married a Major James Blackwell.