Wood, Charles Lindley, 2nd Viscount Halifax, 1839-1934
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Charles Lindley Wood, son of the 1st Viscount Halifax, succeeded to the peerage in 1885. In 1886 he became an ecclesiastical commissioner and was president of the English Church Union, a High Church organisation, from 1867 to 1919. His son, Edward, was created Baron Irwin in 1925 and served as Viceroy of India, 1926-1931; as Foreign Secretary 1938-1940; and as ambassador to the United States from 1941-1946
From the guide to the Correspondence of Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, 1895-1932, (GB 206 Leeds University Library)
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