Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax

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Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (7 January 1839–19 January 1934) married, Lady Agnes Courtenay, daughter of the 11th Earl of Devon. His father, Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, was a prominent Whig politician.

As a student at Eton he was the favorite of William Johnson Cory, his Master, who dedicated his book of Uranian verse, Ionica, to him.

A devout Anglo-Catholic, Halifax spent his much of his adult life as president of the English Church Union, a society dedicated to the promotion of Catholic principles and practices within the Church of England. Along with the Abbe Fernand Portal he played a prominent role in the attempt to bring about dialog between the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England on the subject of Anglican Orders. No constructive dialog ever came about, however, and the unhoped for result of Halifax's actions was the condemnation of Anglican Orders as "absolutely null and utterly void" in the Papal Encyclical Apostolicae Curae.

Halifax was also a collector of ghost stories, many of which are to be found in Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book (ISBN 1-55521-123-2) and The Ghost Book of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax (ISBN 978-0786701513).

His third son, E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, was Viceroy of India and later Foreign Secretary in Neville Chamberlain's government.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Wood	Viscount Halifax 1885–1934	Succeeded by E. F. L. Wood