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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.
She was the wife of Viceroy and Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax. They had five children. She held the office of Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. [2] [5]
In 1944 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Halifax. As of 2018 the titles are held by his grandson, the third Earl, who succeeded his father in 1980. Another member of the Wood family was the Conservative politician Richard Wood, Baron Holderness. He was the second son of the first Earl of Halifax.
uncle also held Barony of Halifax which he inherited by special remainder, had been made first earl of the first creation in 1714. George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (also spelt George Montague ) PC KB ( c. 1684 – 9 May 1739), of Horton , Northamptonshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1715 when he ...
Halifax was born in London, the eldest son of Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, a prominent Liberal politician, and his wife, the former Lady Mary Grey, the fifth daughter of the 2nd Earl Grey. As a student at Eton he was the favourite of William Johnson Cory, his master, who dedicated his book of Uranian verse, Ionica, to him.
Her second marriage was to Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, son of Hon. George Montagu (the half-brother of Robert Montagu's father, Edward [3]) and Elizabeth Irby, circa 12 May 1688. This marriage was childless, and the Halifax title passed to Charles Montagu's nephew, George Montagu, by special remainder, on the former's death in 1715 ...
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax; Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax; Peter Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax; Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax; George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax; George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
Charles Ingram Courtenay Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, DL (3 October 1912 – 19 March 1980), styled Hon. Charles Wood from 1925–59, was a British peer, Conservative politician, Lord Lieutenant of Humberside and High Steward of York Minster.