Basil George Woodd (1781–1872)

Wine merchant and land owner. Of Hillfield House, Hampstead, from before 1841. Father of Ellen Sophia, William Darwin Fox’s second wife.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1952

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/93/80/15), 1871 (RG10/193/11/16)

Post Office London suburban directory 1868

T. F. T. Baker et al., eds. 1989, pp. 51–60