Thomas Wood (1708-1799)

Thomas Wood FRS (25 September 1708 – 25 June 1799), was a British politician. A member of the British Whig Party, he was Member of Parliament for Middlesex from 1779 to 1780. He was from Littleton (then in Middlesex, now Surrey) from the later military Wood family.

He married Elizabeth Jones and was grandfather of Thomas Wood (1777-1860).

He was a barrister, later made Treasurer of the Inner Temple.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1761.

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