Nicholas Wood

Nicholas Wood MP (1832 – 24 December 1892) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party politician.

He was born in Killingworth, Northumberland, where his father, also Nicholas Wood, was a locomotive engineer. The family subsequently moved to Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, where they took part in developing the coalfields. having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1885. He was defeated at the 1892 general election. He died from typhoid fever later that year in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London, aged 60. He was buried in the churchyard at Saltwood near Hythe, Kent on 29 December.