Richard Wood, Baron Holderness
Niall Macpherson | |
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Succeeded by | Peggy Herbison |
Minister of Power | |
In office 14 October 1959 – 20 October 1963 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
Preceded by | The Lord Mills |
Succeeded by | Frederick Erroll |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 7 August 1979 – 11 August 2002 Life peerage | |
Member of Parliament for Bridlington | |
In office 23 February 1950 – 7 April 1979 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | John Townend |
Personal details | |
Born | Richard Frederick Wood 5 October 1920 London, England |
Died | 11 August 2002 Bishop Wilton, England | (aged 81)
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse |
Diana Kellet (m. 1947) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Edward Wood, Lady Dorothy Evelyn Augusta Onslow |
Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
Richard Frederick Wood, Baron Holderness,
Early life, education and military service
Richard Frederick Wood was born in London on 5 August 1920, the youngest son of
Wood returned to Britain in 1945 and resumed his studies at Oxford, reading
Political career
Wood became
Wood was then Joint Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance between 1955 and 1958. He was minister of Labour between 1958 and 1959 and at the minister of Power between 1959 and 1963.[1] Wood urged Prime Minister Anthony Eden not to respond to the Suez Crisis with overt aggression, but his advice was ignored because of his father's association with appeasement and the Munich Agreement.[5]
In 1959 Wood was invested as a
After he retired as an MP, Wood was given a
Other work
Wood was a director of Hargreaves Group between 1974 and 1986 and also a director of FJC Lilley & Company. He sat on the Yorkshire and Humber regional board of Lloyds Bank from 1981 to 1990.[4] From 1983 to 1986, he was president of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled.[4]
Honours
Wood became Honorary Colonel of the Queen's Royal Rifles in 1962 and Honorary Colonel of the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion,
Personal life
In 1947, Wood married Diana Kellett, daughter of Colonel
Wood died in Bishop Wilton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on 11 August 2002, at the age of 81.[3]
Arms
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References
- ^ a b c "Lord Holderness". The Guardian. 17 August 2002. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- ^ a b "HALIFAX'S SON KILLED IN FIGHTING IN EGYPT; Lieut. the Hon. Peter Wood Was in Royal Armored Corps". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Lord Holderness". The Daily Telegraph. 15 August 2002. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
- OCLC 489636152.
- ^ "No. 47922". The London Gazette. 9 August 1979. p. 10099.
- ^ "Life Peerages - H". Cracroft's Peerage.
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1951, 1966, October 1974
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs