Benjamin Wood (MP)

Benjamin Wood (1787 – 13 August 1845) was a British Whig politician.

Life
He was born in Tiverton, Devon the son of William Wood.

Wood became a Whig MP for Southwark at a by-election in 1840—caused by the resignation of Daniel Whittle Harvey—and held the seat until his death at Eltham Lodge in Kent in 1845.

He is buried in Cressing in Essex.

Family
In October 1815 in Kenwyn in Cornwall, he married Anna Marie Michell (1791-1889) daughter of Admiral Sampson Michell and sister of Admiral Frederick Thomas Michell and Charles Collier Michell.