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- Wood, Alexander, Sir, KCMG
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Sir Alexander Wood was the son of the late Alexander Wood, (c.1750s–1807) esq an eminent member of the medical profession in Edinburgh. Sir Alexander Wood went to Ceylon on the civil establishment in 1801 and after filling the offices of member of the Council and sole Commissioner of Revenue, he returned to England in 1811. On Sir Thomas Maitland’s insistence, Wood, who had served under Maitland in Ceylon, was appointed Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta between 1815 and 1817. He was also Chief Secretary to the Government of the Ionian Islands, and up to the period of his demise was Resident Agent in England for the Ionian Islands. He was nominated a Knight Commander of St Michael and St George in 1820, and in the same year dubbed a Knight Bachelor. Sir Alexander Wood married the eldest daughter of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo Bart, Christian Forbes, in 1807 and died on the 18th of March in 1847 at Holles Street Cavendish square.
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Malta, Chief Secretary to the Government (1815-1817)
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Commissioner of Revenue; Chief Secretary to the Government; Resident Agent; Knight Commander; Knight Bachelor.
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Date of creation: 28/07/2023
Dates of revision: 14/05/2024; 18/07/2024
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Urban S. (1847). The Gentleman's Magazine , Vol. 182, 93, London: J.B. Nicholas and Son; Pirotta G. A. (1996). The Maltese Public Service 1800-1940: The Administrative Politics of a Micro-State, Msida: Mireva Publications.
Maintenance notes
Creator of Authority Record: Zvetlana Pace Cassar
Revised by: Danica Abela