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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Halifax
Knight of St John JP DL
Arms of The Earl of Halifax
MonarchHM Queen Elizabeth II
Personal details
Born(1944-03-14)14 March 1944
Yorkshire, England
Political partyConservative Party (UK)
Spouse(s)Lady Camilla Wood (née Younger), The Countess of Halifax
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

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

KStJ Breast Star

Background

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[1] and The Rt Hon Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, KGStJ, JP.[2]

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

Career

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.[3]

Lord Halifax held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Humberside between 1983 and 1996.[4] He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Wilton Beacon in 1985 and the office of High Steward of York Minster in 1988. Wood held the office of Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding, Yorkshire in 1996.[5][6] He is a Knight of St John[7] and JP.[8][9]

Lord Halifax is a non-executive director of Hambros Bank, Vice-Chairman of Christie, Manson & Woods, the European Division of Christie's international fine arts auctioneers, and a director of Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd. He serves as a Board Governor for The Pocklington School Foundation.[10][11][12] In addition, The Rt Hon The Earl of Halifax K.St.J. JP DL serving as the President of the Leeds Art Collections Fund[13] or LACF and the Vice President of the Yorkshire Society.[14] The Earl and The Countess of Halifax are active members of the Jockey Club.[15] Lord Halifax is on the Board of Directors of Jockey Club Estates.[16]

Family

In 1976, Lord Halifax (then Lord Irwin) (who had once been minded for a potential husband of Princess Anne) married Camilla Parker Bowles (née Younger), of the Scottish brewing family, former wife of Richard Parker Bowles (married in 1973 and divorced in 1976), a younger brother of Andrew Parker Bowles, first husband of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, who also had a dalliance with Princess Anne.[17] The Countess of Halifax and The Duchess of Cornwall are former sisters-in-law.[18][19][20][21]

Lord and Lady Halifax have a son and a daughter:[22]

  • Hon James Charles Wood, Lord Irwin[23][24] (born 24 August 1977), heir apparent to the earldom, married Georgia E. Clarkson, Lady Irwin, daughter of Patrick Robert James Clarkson, QC (son of Cmdr Robert Anthony Clarkson, LVO, RN) and Bridget Cecilia Doyne on 14 October 2006 at Church of St. John the Evangalist, Sutton Veny in the county of Wiltshire, England; they have issue:
  • Lady Joanna Victoria Wood (born 15 January 1980)[29][30]

The Countess of Halifax also has a daughter from her first marriage with Richard Eustace Parker Bowles:[31]

The Earl and Countess of Halifax live on the 20,000 acre family estate, Garrowby Hall near Garrowby, East Riding of Yorkshire. Lady Halifax is the national president of Macmillan Cancer Support.[33][34]


Ancestry

Family of Peter Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax
16. Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax
8. Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax
17. Lady Mary Grey
4. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
18. William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon
9. Lady Agnes Courtenay
19. Lady Elizabeth Fortescue
2. Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax
20. George Onslow
10. William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow
21. Mary Loftus
5. Lady Dorothy Onslow
22. Alan Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner
11. Hon. Florence Gardner
23. Julia Fortescue
1. Charles Wood, 3rd Earl of Haifax
24. Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny
12. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
25. Lady Catherine Stanhope
6. Hon. Neil Primrose
26. Baron Mayer de Rothschild
13. Hannah de Rothschild
27. Juliana Cohen
3. Ruth Primrose
28. Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
14. Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
29. Lady Constance Villiers
7. Lady Victoria Stanley
30. William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester
15. Lady Alice Montagu
31. Countess Louise von Alten

References

  1. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p2259.htm#i22582 |title=p. 2259
  2. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/halifax1944.htm
  3. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/halifax1944.htm
  4. ^ http://www2.eastriding.gov.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=102171
  5. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/halifax1944.htm
  6. ^ http://www.burkespeerage.com/search_index.php?book=Official_Roll_of_the_Baronetage
  7. ^ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45015/page/232/data.pdf
  8. ^ http://www.yorkshire-racing.co.uk/garrowby.htm
  9. ^ http://www.yorkshiresociety.org.uk/About.aspx
  10. ^ http://www.pocklingtonschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Governors_and_Life_Patrons_updated-24.3.15.pdf
  11. ^ http://www.pocklingtonschool.com/the-foundation/governors-and-life-patrons/
  12. ^ http://www.pocklingtonschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Pocklington-School-Foundation-Trustee-Report-310814.pdf
  13. ^ Leeds Art Collections Fund
  14. ^ http://www.yorkshiresociety.org.uk/About.aspx
  15. ^ http://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/about/our-members
  16. ^ http://www.jockey-club-estates.co.uk/newmarket-training-grounds/jockey-club-family
  17. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/booksid=8GeFd8elTfsC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=Lord+Halifax+married+Camilla+Younger&source=bl&ots=RBrBsUpRLt&sig=p0I3zB7idQDcnxt7ro85u0iwS4k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBGoVChMIwPDjot_vxgIVggjbCh2gYwq7#v=onepage&q=Lord%20Halifax%20married%20Camilla%20Younger&f=false
  18. ^ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/the-right-ingredients-for-charity-success-1-2589031
  19. ^ http://issuu.com/peerageandbaronetagepublishing/docs/family_history_and_genealogy_book/36
  20. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p2592.htm#i25913
  21. ^ http://www.snipview.com/q/Parker%20family
  22. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/halifax1944.htm
  23. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p23097.htm#i230962
  24. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/halifax1944.htm
  25. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p23097.htm#i230962
  26. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/halifax1944.htm
  27. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p23097.htm#i230962
  28. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/halifax1944.htm
  29. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p23097.htm#i230963
  30. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/halifax1944.htm
  31. ^ http://issuu.com/peerageandbaronetagepublishing/docs/family_history_and_genealogy_book/36
  32. ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/blandford-banned-from-using-taxis-1368349.html
  33. ^ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/the_right_ingredients_for_charity_success_1_2589031
  34. ^ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/the-right-ingredients-for-charity-success-1-2589031
  • Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Halifax
  • Lundy, Darryl. "Charles Edward Peter Neil Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax". The Peerage. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  • Burke's Peerage
  • Cracroft's Peerage
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl of Halifax
1980–present 		Incumbent

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