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Overview

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Raymond Lamont-Brown describes how the Prince of Wales's friends enjoyed finding women for him:

There was a certain frisson in pimping for the Prince of Wales and some of his lifelong friends took great pleasure in doing it. There was Harry Tyrwhitt-Wilson, his equerry, Charles Lindley Wood, later 2nd Viscount Halifax, in those earlier days, and George Henry Cadogan, later 5th Earl of Cadogan, Frederick Arthur Stanley, later 16th Earl of Derby and William Henry Gladstone, eldest son of Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.[1]

Organizations

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Gordon Edward Boileau Wood

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Timeline

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1829 July 30, Charles Wood and Mary Grey married.[4]

1869 April 22, Charles Lindley Wood and Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay married.[5]

1897 July 2, Gordon Wood attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

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At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Gordon Edward Boileau Wood was among the Suite of Men in the "Oriental" procession.[6][7] The Gentlewoman says, "Messrs Gordon Wood and Wilfred Wilson were attendants on [George Keppel's] King Solomon," wearing "green silk tunics elaborately embroidered in gold and studs, with cloaks embroidered and lined with white; jewelled headdresses, swords."[8]:34, Col. 3a

Also Known As

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  • Family name: Wood
  • Viscount Halifax[9]
    • Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (21 February 1866 – 8 August 1885)[10]
    • Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (8 August 1885 – 19 January 1934)
  • Viscountess Halifax
    • Mary Grey Wood (21 February 1866 – 6 July 1884)
    • Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay Wood (8 August 1885 – 4 July 1919)
  • Dowager Viscountess Halifax

Demographics

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  • Nationality: English

Residences

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Family

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  • Mary Grey Wood (3 May 1807 – 6 July 1884)[4]
  • Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (20 December 1800 – 8 August 1885)[10]
    1. Hon. Blanche Edith Wood ( – 21 July 1921)
    2. Hon. Alice Louisa Wood ( – 3 June 1934)
    3. Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (7 June 1839 – 19 January 1934)
    4. Hon. Emily Charlotte Wood (1840 – 21 December 1904)
    5. Captain Hon. Francis Lindley Wood (17 October 1841 – 14 October 1873)
    6. Lt.-Col. Hon. Henry John Lindley Wood (12 Jan 1843 – 5 Jan 1903)
    7. Hon. Frederick George Lindley Meynell (4 June 1846 – 4 November 1910)


  • Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (7 June 1839 – 19 January 1934)[11]
  • Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay Wood (1 May 1838 – 4 July 1919)[5]
  1. Charles Reginald Lindley Wood (7 July 1870 – dvp. 6 September 1899)
  2. Alexandra Mary Elizabeth Wood (25 August 1871 – 10 March 1965)
  3. Francis Hugh Lindley Wood (21 September 1873 – dvp. 17 March 1889)
  4. Mary Agnes Wood (25 March 1877 – 25 March 1962)
  5. Henry Paul Lindley Wood (25 Jan 1879 – dvp. 6 June 1886)
  6. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax (1881–1959)


  • Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax (1881–1959)
  • Dorothy

Another Wood Family

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  • Edward Wood (1833 – )[12]
  • Isabella Annie Boileau (c. 1841[13] – 1871[12])
    1. Madoline Wood (c. 1862[13] – )
    2. Maud B. Wood (c. 1865[13] – )
    3. Gordon Edward Boileau Wood (July 1866[2] – 20 October 1900 [near Zeerust, South Africa][3])
    4. Charles C. B. Wood (c. 1870[13] – )

Notes and Questions

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  1. DVP is decessit vita patris, died while his father was still living.
  2. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax, wasn't promoted to Earl until 11 July 1944.
  3. Three somewhat difficult-to-identify men were among the Suite of Men in the "Oriental" procession at the Duchess of Devonshire's 1897 fancy-dress ball with the Hon. George Keppel: Gordon Wood, Arthur B. Portman and Wilfred Wilson. The identification of Gordon Wood and Wilfred Wilson is reasonably certain because of contemporary newspaper accounts; Arthur Portman appears in a number of similar newspaper accounts, but none mentions his family of origin. The Hon. Algernon Bourke, also in the Suite of Men, is not difficult to identify at all.
  4. In 1871, the family of Edward and Isabella Annie Boileau Wood had 11 staff and servants, including a governess, butler and 3 nurses.[13]
  5. Gordon Edward Boileau Wood's estate went to his brother, Charles Peevor Boileau Wood, valued at £40,612 6s. 2d.[14]
  6. Gordon Edward Boileau Wood is #234 on the list of people who were present at the Duchess of Devonshire's ball.

Footnotes

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  1. ↑ Lamont-Brown, Raymond. Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser: Edward VII's Last Loves. History Press, 2011. [Preview on Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=8LQTDQAAQBAJ.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oxford Men and Their Colleges, 1880–1892. Vol. 2. 669.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Wood Gordon Edward Boileau". A Military Photo & Video Website. 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2024-11-29. https://www.militaryimages.net/media/wood-gordon-edward-boileau.56858/.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Lady Mary Grey." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Lady Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  6. ↑ "Fancy Dress Ball at Devonshire House." Morning Post Saturday 3 July 1897: 7 [of 12], Col. 4a–8 Col. 2b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970703/054/0007.
  7. ↑ "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12, Cols. 1a–4c The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
  8. ↑ “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The Gentlewoman 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032. Print p. 50, Col. 3a.
  9. ↑ "Halifax, Viscount." Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. London: Dean & Son, 1884: 324. Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=Vlo-AQAAIAAJ.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifx of Monk Bretton." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  11. ↑ "Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Walford, Edward (1876). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland (in en). https://books.google.com/books?id=Wt2wGQa8iDUC.  1046, Col. 1b.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 2670; Folio: 17; Page: 27; GSU roll: 835333. Ancestry.com. 1871 England Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
  14. ↑ Principal Probate Registry; London, England; Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
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