Mark Wood, British army officer and engineer who had worked in Calcutta, received a baronetcy on this day after returning to England.

He was appointed a cadet of the British East India Company army in 1770 and arrived in India with his brother George, who became a major-general in the army.

In 1772, he received his first commission, in the Bengal Engineers. He was appointed surveyor-general in 1787 and chief engineer of Bengal in 1790. After this, he returned to England because of ill health.

In England, he entered the Parliament and a career in public life for the following two decades.

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