HATHERLEY, WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, 1ST BARON, cr. 1868 (18oI-1881), lord chancellor of Great Britain, son of Sir Matthew Wood, a London alderman and lord mayor who be came famous for befriending Queen Caroline and braving George IV., was born in London on Nov. 29, 18o 1. He was educated at Winchester, Geneva university, and at Trinity college, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1824. He entered Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1824. He practised as an equity draughtsman and before parliamentary committees. In 1845 he became Q.C., and in 1847 became M.P. for the city of Oxford. In 1849 he was appointed vice-chancellor of the county palatine of Lancaster, and was solicitor-general in 1851-52. When the Liberal party returned to power in 1853, he was raised to the bench as a vice-chancellor. In 1868 he was made a lord justice of appeal, but before the end of the year was selected by Mr. Gladstone to be lord chancellor. He retired in 1872, but sat occasionally as a law lord. He died in London on July 10, 188 r .