Attiwell Wood
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He was a native of County Cork. He was born into a family which had a long association with the town of Bandon; an earlier Attiwell Wood, probably his grandfather, was a member of Bandon Corporation in 1702. There is reason to believe that the eldest son in each generation of the Wood family was named Attiwell, and the tradition continued up to the late nineteenth century.
Career
He entered the Trinity College Dublin in 1744 and the Middle Temple in 1747.[2] He was called to the Irish Bar in 1753. He became Third Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) in 1777 and was made Second Serjeant in 1779;[3] he held the latter office until his death.[4] He sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Castlemartyr from 1769 to 1776, and for Clonakilty from 1776 to 1783.[5] He died in March of the following year.[6]