Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wood, Sir William Page
Wood, Sir William Page, created D.C.L. 3 July, 1851 (2s. Matthew, of London, baronet), scholar Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1822-5, 24th wrangler & B.A. 1824, fellow 1825-9, M.A. 1827, created LL.D. 1864, bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1829, Q.C. and a bencher 1845, M.P. Oxford 1847-53, vice-chancellor county palatine Lancaster 1849, solicitor-general 1851-2, vice-chancellor 1853-68, hon. student Christ Church 1867-81, lord justice of Appeal in Chancery March to Dec., 1868, privy councillor, created Baron Hatherley 9 Dec., 1868, lord high chancellor of Great Britain 1868-72, died 10 July, 1881. See Foster's Baronetage, Wood.