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228 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. By persevering. HALIFAX, VISCOUNT. (WOOD.) CHARLES WOOD, P.C. G.C.B. 1st Vis- count, and a Baronet, son of Sir Francis Wood, 2nd Bart. Born Dec. 20, 1800; succeeded his father as 3rd Baronet, 1846 ; educated at Eton, and at Oriel College, Oxford, (B.A. 1st class in Classics and in Mathematics, 1821, M.A. 1825 ) ; was Secretary to the Treasury, 1832 5, and to the Admiralty, 1835 9; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 184652; President of the Board of Control, 18525; First Lord of the Admiralty, 18558; and Secretary for India, 1859 66 ; appointed Lord Privy Seal, 1870: sat as M.P. for Grimsby, 182631, for Wareham, 18312, for Halifax, 183265, for Ripon, 18656 ; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire: married (1829) Lady Mary Grey, daughter of the 2nd Earl Grey, K.G. and has issue, living, Son*, Charles Lindley, b. 1839; was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. 1865, M.A. 1866) ; is Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, and President of the English Church Union; appointed Capt. 1st West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry, 1872: m. 1869, Lady Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay, only daughter of the llth Earl of Devon, and has with other issue, a son, b. 18JO. Residence, 32, Lowndes Square, S.W. Clubs, St. James's, Brooks's, Travellers'. Henry John Lindley, b. 1843. Frederick John Lindley, b. 1846. Daughters, Emily Charlotte, b. 1840, m. 1863, (Ingram). Alice Louisa, b. 1847, m. 1870 (Dundas) .Blanche Edith, b. 1851. Creation, Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton, Yorkshire, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1866. A Baronet, 1784. Patron of two livings, Hickleton, V. and Ulley, V. Yorkshire, arms. Azure: three naked savage men of the wood, passant, m fesse, proper, each holding in his dexter hand a club, resting on his shoulder, all proper, and on his sinister arm a shield, argent, charged with a cross, gules ; on a canton, ermine, three lozenges, conjoined in fesse, sable. Crest, A savage, as in the arms, the shield sable, charged with a griftin's head, erased, argent. S>ttpportms, On either side a griffin, sable, gorged with a collar, and pendant therefrom a portcullis, or. Seats, Hickleton-hall, Doncaster; Garrowbj ,5 Pocklingtor ; Yorkshire. Town Residence, 10, Belgrave-square, S.W. Clubs, Atheiise urn, Brooks' s, Travellers*. HAMILTON, DUKE OF. Sits as DUKE OF (HAMILTOX-DOUGLAS.y BRANDON. WILLIAM ALEXANDER Louis STEPHEN HAMILTON-DOUGLAS, 12th Duke of Ha- milton, Premier Peer of Scotland, and 9th Duke of Brandon. Born March 12th, 1845; succeeded his father in 1863; edu- cated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Ox- ford; was appointed Lieut. -Col. of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Glasgow, and the Lower Ward ot the Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry, 1866; is Hereditary^ Keeper of Holyrood House: married (1873) Lady Mary Louise Elizabeth Montague, daughter of the 7th Duke of Manchester.