Charles Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax

The Right Honourable The Earl of Halifax KStJ JP DL
Arms of the Earl of Halifax
Born	(1944-03-14)14 March 1944 Yorkshire, England
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Lady Camilla Wood (née Younger), The Countess of Halifax

Charles Edward Peter Neil Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax, KStJ, JP, DL (born 14 March 1944), is a British peer and Conservative politician.

Lord Halifax is the third child and only son of Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, a grandson of Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. His mother, Ruth Alice Hannah Mary Wood (née Primrose), The Countess of Halifax, was a daughter of Capt Rt Hon Neil James Archibald Primrose, MC MP, and a granddaughter of The Rt Hon Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, KG, PC, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and The Rt Hon Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, KGStJ, JP.

He was brought up at Swinford Paddocks, Newmarket and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

As Peter Wood, he unsuccessfully contested Dearne Valley as a Conservative candidate at the February general election of 1974 and the October general election of the same year. On 19 March 1980 he succeeded to the title of 3rd Earl of Halifax, the title of 7th Baronet Wood, of Barnsley in the County of York, the title of 5th Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton, in the West Riding of the County of Yorkshire and to the title of 3rd Baron Irwin, of Kirby Underdale in the County of York.