Nicholas Wood (MP)
Nicholas Wood (1832 – 24 December 1892)[1] was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician.[2]
He was born in Killingworth, Northumberland, where his father, also Nicholas Wood, was a locomotive engineer. The family subsequently moved to Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, where they took part in developing the coalfields.[2] Educated at Repton School, he went on to be the proprietor of a number of mines in the Hetton area, as well as having interests in shipping and other industries.[2] In 1881 he married Edith Florence Jervis of Staffordshire.[2] He was a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant of County Durham.[2][3]
He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Houghton-le-Spring at the 1886 general election,[4] having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1885.[5] He was defeated at the 1892 general election.[5] He was believed to have been defeated by the votes of local miners who had been engaged in a lengthy strike and of Irish immigrants due to his opposition to Home Rule.[3] He died from typhoid fever later that year in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London, aged 60.[1][6] He was buried in the churchyard at Saltwood near Hythe, Kent on 29 December.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25609. p. 3497. 20 July 1886. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
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External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Nicholas Wood
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Houghton-le-Spring 1886 – 1892 |
Succeeded by Henry Thomas Fenwick |
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- 1832 births
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- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1886–92
- People educated at Repton School
- Deaths from typhoid fever
- Deputy Lieutenants of Durham
- English businesspeople
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