Hatherley, SIR WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, BARON

Hatherley, SIR WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, BARON, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was born in London in 1801, and educated at Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequently called to the bar. He was returned in 1847 as Liberal member for Oxford, in 1851 was appointed solicitor-general and knighted, in 1853 became vice-chancellor, in 1868 a lord justice in the Appeal Court and lord chancellor, being at the same time raised to the peerage as Baron Hatherley. His name is associated with a Bankruptcy Act of 1869. He resigned office in 1872 in consequence of failing eyesight, and died on 10th July 1881. From his pen came Truth and its Counterfeits (1857) and The Continuity of Scripture (1867-69). See Memoir by W. R. W. Stephens (1882).