Richard Wood (consul)

Sir Richard Wood GCMG CB (1806 – 31 July 1900) was a British dragoman and consul in Constantinople, Damascus, and Tunis.

Wood's career spanned more than forty years of the Eastern question period, when the Ottoman Empire was in decline and the British were gaining power in the Middle East and North Africa. He was a key figure in Anglo-Ottoman co-operation between the 1830s and the 1870s.