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Sir Lindsay Wood
Source: Transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers

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14 Sep 1880	—	Newspaper article (The Seaham Colliery Explosion)
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07 Dec 1886	—	Newspaper article (The Elemore Colliery Explosion)
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29 May 1891	—	Newspaper article (Official Notice)
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17 May 1912	—	Newspaper article (Official Notice)
23 Sep 1920	—	Newspaper article (Obituary)
11 Nov 1921	—	Newspaper article (Official Notice)
23 Nov 1936	—	Newspaper article (Obituary)

Membership

1864-1865, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Council Member; Address: Hetton Colliery, Fence Houses.

1864-1865, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Member; Address: Hetton Colliery, Fence Houses.

Membership

1870-1871, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Council Member; Address: Hetton Hall, Fence Houses.

1870-1871, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Member; Address: Hetton Hall, Fence Houses (Vice-President); Elected: 01 Oct 1857

Membership

1880-1881, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Council Member; Address: Southill, Chester-le-Street.

1880-1881, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Member; Address: Southill, Chester-le-Street (Past President, Member of Council); Elected: 01 Oct 1857

Census

Address: South Hill (Plawsworth), Chester Le Street

(Ref: RG11/4979/79/39)

Name	Age	Rel	Mar	Occupation	Where Born
WOOD, Lindsay	46	Head	Mar	Colliery Owner	NBL: Killingworth
WOOD, Emma B.	32	Wife	Mar		France (British Subject)
WOOD, Arthur N. L.	6	Son			DUR: Chester Le Street
WOOD, Maria L.	4	Dau			SCT
WOOD, Henry L.	2	Son			MDX
WOOD, Elsie E. L.	1	Dau			MDX
WYNNE, Jane D.	41	Servant	Unn	Housekeeper	DEN
GOULD, Emily	34	Servant	Unn	Ladies Maid	LIN: Holywell
LIDDLE, Annie	34	Servant	Wid	Nurse	SCT
BENNETT, Isabella	20	Servant	Unn	Nurse	NBL: Withingham
LIDDLE, Ann	25	Servant	Unn	Kitchen Maid	NBL: Newcastle On Tyne
BURDSALL, Ada	16	Servant	Unn	Kitchen Maid	YKS
HESHOP, Isabella	31	Servant	Unn	House Maid	DUR: Durham City
ROBINSON, Mary	25	Servant	Unn	Laundry Maid	SCT
FIRMIN, Catherine	19	Servant	Unn	Laundry Maid	NBL: Newcastle On Tyne
MORAS, Hannah	17	Servant	Unn	House Maid	DUR: Bafferton
DUNN, Annie L.	27	Visitor	Unn	General Servant	SCT
DUNN, Margaret S.	20	Servant	Unn	Housemaid	SCT
CLEMINTION, William	23	Servant	Unn	Footman	DBY: Aston
DIXON, Thomas	26	Servant	Unn	Groom	NBL: Rugley Or Rugby
BOYD, James	27	Servant	Unn	Groom	NBL: Lesbury

Colliery Staff Positions held

Position	Colliery	Company
Agent:	Eppleton	Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Elemore	Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Hazard	North Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Hetton	Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	North Hetton	North Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Pittington	North Hetton Coal Co.

Colliery Staff Positions held

Position	Colliery	Company
Agent:	Eppleton	Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Elemore	Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Hazard	North Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Hetton	Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	North Hetton	North Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Pittington	North Hetton Coal Co.

Colliery Staff Positions held

Position	Colliery	Company
Agent:	Hazard	North Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	North Hetton	North Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	Pittington	North Hetton Coal Co.

Membership

1888-1889, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Council; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

1888-1889, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. Position: Member; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street (Past-President, Member of Council); Elected: 01 Oct 1857

Membership

1889-1890, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Council Member; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

1889-1890, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Member; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-he-Street.

Colliery Staff Positions held

Position	Colliery	Company
Agent:	Hazard	North Hetton Coal Co.
Agent:	North Hetton	North Hetton Coal Co.

Commercial/Trade Directory

Page 524: Fence Houses - Wood, Lindsay, Managing Director, Hetton Coal Co. Ltd., Hetton-le-Hole
Source: Kelly's Directory of Durham, 1890

Commercial/Trade Directory

Page 811: Hetton-le-Hole - Wood, Lindsay, Managing Director Hetton Coal Co. Ltd.
Source: History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.

Membership

1896-1897, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Member; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

1896-1897, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: President; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

Membership

1898-1899, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Vice-President; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

1898-1899, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Past-President; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

Membership

1900-1901, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Past-President; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

Membership

1901-1902, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Past President; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

Membership

1902-1903, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: President

1902-1903, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Past President; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

1902-1903, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: President; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

Membership

1907-1908, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Past-President; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

Colliery Staff Positions held

Position	Colliery	Company
Agent:	Hazard	North Hetton Coal Co. Ltd.
Agent:	North Hetton (or Moorsley)	North Hetton Coal Co. Ltd.

Membership

1909-1910, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Past-President; Address: M.A., D.L., M.Inst.C.E., The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

Membership

1919-1920, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Member; Address: The Hermitage, Chester-le-Street.

1919-1920, Institute of Mining Engineers. Position: Past-President; Address: M.A., D.L., M.Inst.C.E., The Hermitage, Chesterle-Street. (Deceased).

Biographical Notes

Sir Lindsay Wood, first baronet, for over 40 years president of the Durham Coalowners' Association, died yesterday at the Hermitage, Chester-le-Street, at the age of 86.

Sir Lindsay Wood came of a family which has held a leading place in the history of the Durham and Northumberland coal trade for nearly a century. His father, Nicholas Wood, was colliery viewer at Killingworth in 1819, when George Stephenson, who was enginewright at the same pit, apprenticed his son Robert to him. The Wood Memorial Hall at Newcastle-on-Tyne is a reminder of the esteem in which Nicholas Wood was held by all classes in the North of England at his death in 1866. Of his four sons, who all made names for themselves in the coal industry, Sir Lindsay Wood was the youngest and last survivor. He was born at Killingworth Hall in 1834, and educated at the Royal Kepier Grammar School, Houghton-le-Spring, and King's College, London. After serving his apprenticeship as a mining engineer at the Hetton Collieries, of which his father was then manager, he received his first appointment in 1858 as viewer at North Hetton Colliery, becoming shortly afterwards assistant manager to his father, and then viewer, at the Hetton Collieries. On his father's death in 1866 he became managing director of the Hetton Collieries, and continued to occupy this position down to the sale of the undertaking to Lord Joicey's firm in 1911. Sir Lindsay Wood was also managing partner of the North Hetton Coal Company and managing director of the Harton Coal Company, and was on the board of John Bowes and Partners, the Netherton Coal Company, the Newcastle Electric Supply Company, the Durham Collieries Electric Supply Company, the Hendon Paper Works, and the North-Eastern Railway Company. He was also mining engineer to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and to the Greenwich Hospital. He rendered useful service on various Royal Commissions, among them that on Accidents in Mines, 1870-86, and that on Coal Supplies, 1903-05. He was president of the Northern Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers from 1875 to 1878. As chairman of the Durham Coalowners' Association, he won the confidence of the miners' leaders as well as of the coalowners. He was also chairman of the North of England United Coal Trade Association and of the Durham Colliery Owners' Mutual Protection Association. Before the passing of the Education Act of 1870 he had himself provided an efficient system of elementary schools in the neighbourhood of his own collieries, and his consideration for the well-being of those dependent on him showed itself in countless ways.

He was an active supporter of the Unionist cause, president of the party organisation in the Houghton-le-Spring Division, and chairman of the Durham County Division of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations. He was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy-Lieutenant, and was Sheriff in 1889. He was created a baronet in 1897.

Sir Lindsay Wood married in 1873, Emma, fourth daughter of the late Captain Samuel G. Barrett, of Heighington Hall, near Darlington. She died in 1891, leaving four sons and two daughters. The eldest, who succeeds to the baronetcy, is Mr. Arthur Nicholas Lindsay Wood, born in 1875. Mr. Wood is a mining engineer, and was formerly a captain on the Northumberland (Territorial) Artillery.

Source: The Times Newspaper

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