Edward Wood

Edward Wood   (politician)
Born	Edward Frederick Lindley Wood 1881-04-16 Powderham Castle, Devon, England
Died	1959-12-23 (Age 78) Garrowby Hall, Yorkshire, England
Nationality	British
Religion	Anglo-Catholic
Member of	Cliveden Set
Senior conservative politician and President of the Pilgrims Society  President of the Pilgrims Society In office 1950 - 1958 Succeeded by Norman Birkett  Viceroy and Governor-General of India In office 3 April 1926 - 18 April 1931 Preceded by Rufus Isaacs  Secretary of State for War  In office 7 June 1935 - 22 November 1935  Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs  In office 21 February 1938 - 22 December 1940  British Ambassador to the United States In office 1940 - 1946 Succeeded by Archibald Clark Kerr  Leader of the House of Lords  In office 22 November 1935 - 21 February 1938  Leader of the House of Lords  In office 3 October 1940 - 22 December 1940  Lord President of the Council In office 28 May 1937 - 9 March 1938 Preceded by Ramsay MacDonald  Lord Privy Seal  In office 1935 - 1937  Chancellor of the University of Oxford In office 1933 - 1959

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG OM GCSI GCMG GCIE TD PC, known as Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s. He was a President of the Pilgrims Society.

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