Matthew Wood

ECW acquired the style of Lady when her husband succeeded to a baronetcy following the death of his father, Sir Matthew Wood .

Her heritage was English: her mother 's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white...

His relatives included John Page Wood , husband of novelist Emma Caroline Wood . This pair were the parents of Anna Steele (another novelist), Katharine O'Shea (mistress and later the wife of Charles Stuart Parnell

John Page Wood's father, Sir Matthew Wood , a Liberal Member of Parliament and twice Lord Mayor of London, initially opposed the union because the couple were young and impoverished. The groom's brother was sent...

The Rev. Sir John Page Wood , father of AS , was at the time of her birth the vicar of Cressing. He had been chaplain and private secretary to Queen Caroline, and...