3-066-039 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Lord Hatherley, 1881. William Page Wood was an '...able and accomplished lawyer...[He] became Q.C. in 1845; and in August, 1847, was elected M.P. for the city of Oxford...In Parliament, to quote the testimony of Lord Selborne, he was "ever foremost in the advocacy of the principles of religious liberty"...in 1851,...[he] took office as Solicitor-General, when he was of course knighted...He was appointed a Vice-Chancellor, and this office he continued to hold until March, 1868, when he was transferred as one of the Lords Justices to the Court of Appeal in Chancery, and was at the same time sworn in as of her Majesty's Privy Council...[He] was left a widower in 1878, and, having had no children, his title now becomes extinct. Lord Hatherley was author of a work entitled "The Continuity of Scripture as Declared by the Testimony of Our Lord and of the Evangelists and the Apostles," which has passed through three or four editions'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.