Sir Thomas Wood KS (died 31 August 1502), in archaic spelling Wode, of Childrey in Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire), was an English landowner, lawyer, administrator and politician who became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
[2] In 2018, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography rejected on heraldic grounds claims that he was from gentry families named Wood in Cambridgeshire, Cheshire and Suffolk, suggesting instead that he was born before 1452 in or close to either Hampshire or Wiltshire.
Acquiring an estate at Childrey, he was appointed a JP of the quorum for Berkshire, staying on the bench for life, and was elected a Member of Parliament for Wallingford.
[2] and was made a serjeant-at-law in 1486,[1] From 1487 he was a JP for the five counties of the Western Circuit,[2] acting as an assize judge there until 1500, and in 1488 was raised to a King's Serjeant.
[1][2] He was buried at Reading Abbey in accordance with his will made three days earlier, in which he bequeathed a gold ring with a ruby and two books to Sir Thomas Frowick who succeeded him as Lord Chief Justice.