Thomas Lett Wood was the Acting Stipendiary Magistrate for
Vancouver Island in the early 1860s. He graduated from Westminster School and Trinity College Cambridge
in
1843. Wood practiced as a Special Pleader and a Barrister-at-Law.
After opposition by
D. B. Ring who saw Wood's selection over his own as a
great injustice,
Wood was appointed Acting Attorney General, eventually replacing
Attorney General George Hunter Cary, who had been accused of mishandling finances.