Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet was a British Whig politician, Lord Mayor of London from 1815 to 1817, and from 1817 until his death in 1843 a reformist Member of Parliament.
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, wearing the chain of the Lord Mayor of London. Portrait by Arthur William Devis
Mother Wood, the Popular Procuress-!, 1820 satirical print of Matthew Wood, dressed as a well-known brothel keeper
Moments of Pleasure, satirical engraving by Theodore Lane showing Lady Anne Hamilton, Matthew Wood and Caroline of Brunswick
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Robert Waithman was a master draper who in later life was a British politician; an economic progressive Whig from an industrial background and a political reformist. He became an alderman of the Corpo
Robert Waithman
Obelisk to Waithman in Salisbury Square, St Bride's, London, EC4 previously on Ludgate Circus.