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William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley

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Quarterly Argent and Or the sceptre or mace representing that of the Lord Mayor of the City of London (the same being of crystal the head terminating in crosses patties and fleurs-de-lis and the whole richly ornamented with gold, pearls, and precious stones) in pale, between an oak tree on a mount
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Out of a mural crown Argent a demi wild man wreathed about the temples with oak fructed in the dexter hand an oak tree eradicated and fructed and in the sinister hand a club all Proper.
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On either side a wild man wreathed about the waist and temples with oak fructed across the shoulders a belt of ivy and in the exterior hand a club, all Proper.
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Vert fructed Proper in the 1st and 4th quarters; and in the 2nd and 3rd a bull's head erased, Sable, charged on the neck with a bezant.
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as a Liberal. In 1849 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and in 1851 was made
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Index

The Right Honourable
PC

Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Victoria
William Ewart Gladstone
The Lord Cairns
The Lord Selborne
Liberal
Alma mater
University of Geneva
Trinity College, Cambridge

George Richmond

PC
British
Liberal
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
William Ewart Gladstone
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet
alderman
Lord Mayor of London
Queen Caroline
George IV
Sir Evelyn Wood
Katharine O'Shea
Winchester College
Woodbridge School
Geneva University

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