Sir William Alan Wood, KCVO, CB (8 December 1916 – 28 June 2010) was a British civil servant.
[1] He then served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1942 to 1946, when he was demobilised and moved to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
[1] In 1964, he was appointed Under-Secretary in charge of the Planning Division, serving for four years until (in 1968) he was made Second Crown Estate Commissioner.
[1][2] He managed projects to renovate large parts of the Crown Estate including Windsor Castle and Carlton House Terrace.
[2] Wood subsequently chaired charitable housing organisations and trusts, and was ombudsman of the Mirror Group of newspapers from 1985 to 1989.