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...

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...

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...