nings's academy in London to be trained for the ministry [see Jennings, David]. After ordination he began his public services at Debenham, Suffolk, on 6 July 1766. The remainder of that year and part of the next he spent near London, but in September he settled at Stamford, Lincolnshire. He removed thence to Ipswich in November 1770, where he remained till the close of 1772. On 30 May 1773 he succeeded Joseph Priestley [q. v.] at the Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, an appointment which he retained till his death.
In 1785 he began a series of lectures for the young, which, delivered once a fortnight, lasted for several years. These embraced a wide range of subjects; but he had paid much attention to natural history, especially botany, and became a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1791. He contributed the botanical articles to Abraham Rees's ‘Cyclopædia’ from B to C, and articles to James Sowerby's ‘English Botany’ (Nos. 57–775), as well as to the second edition of William Withering's ‘Botanical Arrangement of the Vegetables in Great Britain,’ while he furnished some articles on natural history to the ‘Annual Review,’ and a short account of Leeds to Aikin's ‘History of Manchester.’ He died at Leeds on 1 April 1808. He married, in 1780, Louisa Ann, second daughter of George Oates of Low Hall, near Leeds, by whom he had four children.
In addition to some published sermons he was author of:
- ‘An Abridgment of Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns’ (written with B. Carpenter), [1780?], 8vo.
- ‘A brief Enquiry concerning the Dignity of the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper,’ Leeds, 1790, 8vo.
- ‘Forms of Prayer’ (for his congregation at Leeds), Leeds, 1801, 12mo.
[Memoirs by C. Wellbeloved, 1809 (with a silhouette); Rees's Cyclopædia, vol. xxxviii.; Gent. Mag. 1808, i. 372, ii. 945; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
WOOD, WILLIAM (1774–1857), zoologist and surgeon, was born in Kendal in 1774, and educated for the medical profession at St. Bartholomew's Hospital under John Abernethy [q. v.] He began practice as a surgeon at Wingham, near Canterbury. Turning his attention early to natural history, he became a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1798, and in 1801 contributed a paper ‘On the Hinges of British Bivalve Shells’ to the ‘Transactions’ of that society. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1812. About 1801 he removed to London, where he practised till 1815, when he entered into business as a bookseller in the Strand, dealing chiefly in works on natural history. He quitted business in 1840 and went to reside at Ruislip, Middlesex, where he died on 26 May 1857, leaving a son (28 May according to Gent. Mag. 1857, ii. 101).
He was author of:
- ‘Zoography; or the Beauties of Nature displayed in select Descriptions from the Animal and Vegetable, with additions from the Mineral Kingdom … with plates … by W. Daniell,’ London, 1807–11, 3 vols. 8vo.
- ‘General Conchology,’ vol. i., London, 1815, 8vo; reissued with a new title-page, 1835.
- ‘Index Testaceologicus,’ London, 1818, 8vo; 2nd ed. with supplement and list of plates, 1828–9; new ed. revised by Sylvanus Hanley [1855–]1856.
- ‘Illustrations of the Linnean Genera of Insects,’ London, 1821, 2 vols. 12mo.
- ‘Catalogue … of the best Works on Natural History,’ London, 1824, 8vo; new ed. 1832.
- ‘Fossilia Hantoniensia [by D. Solander] … Reprinted with a list of the figures … by W. Wood,’ London, 1829, 4to.
- ‘A complete Illustration of the British Freshwater Fishes,’ 3 Nos., London [1840?], 8vo and 4to.
- ‘Index Entomologicus,’ London, [1833–]1839, 8vo; new ed. with supplement by John Obadiah Westwood [q. v.], London, 1854, 8vo.
He edited Buffon's ‘Natural History,’ with a life of the author, London and York, 1812, 20 vols. 8vo. He also drew the figures for Hanley's ‘Illustrated … Catalogue of recent Bivalve Shells’ (1842), and helped to illustrate Charles Thorpe's ‘British Marine Conchology’ (1844).
[Proc. Linn. Soc. 1857–8, p. xl; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Nat. Hist. Mus. Cat.]
WOOD, WILLIAM PAGE, Baron Hatherley (1801–1881), lord chancellor, the second son and fourth child of Sir Matthew Wood [q. v.], was born at his father's house in Falcon Square, London, on 29 Nov. 1801. Most of his early years were spent at the house of his grandmother (Mrs. Page) at Woodbridge in Suffolk, where for a time he attended the free school. From 1809 to 1812 he was at Dr. Lindsay's school at Bow in Essex, and in September 1812 he entered at Winchester. He was not on the foundation. He remained there till May 1818, when, in consequence of his joining in a ‘barring out,’ which the school authorities dignified by summoning the military to their assistance, he was compelled to leave in company with the other senior prefects. He then spent two years at Geneva, where he was placed in charge of Duvillard, professor of belles-lettres, and attended the university lectures. Through his father he was acquainted with
