General Thomas Wood FRS (1804 – 23 October 1872)[1] was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to 1847.
His younger brother, Sir Charles Alexander Wood, married Sophia Ann Brownrigg (a daughter of John Studholme Brownrigg, a prominent merchant and MP for Boston).
[2] His paternal grandparents were Thomas Wood (eldest son of Thomas Wood, MP for Middlesex) and Mary Williams (daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Williams, 5th Baronet).
He commanded the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards in the early stages of the Crimean War (1853–56)[3] and reached the rank of General.
[6] On 6 July 1848, Wood married Frances Smyth (d. 1892), daughter of John Henry Smyth and Lady Elizabeth Anne FitzRoy (a daughter George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton).