{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''David Wood of Craig''' was a Scottish courtier and administrator
Wood was Master of the King's Larder for [[James V of Scotland]]. He was promoted [[Comptroller of Scotland]] from 1538 to 1543.<ref>[[Athol Murray (historian)|Athol Murray]], ''Financing the Royal Household'', ''Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland'' (Scottish Academic Press, 1983), p. 56.</ref> The previous administration had displeased [[James V of Scotland|James V]]. In November 1538, the English border official [[Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton|Thomas Wharton]] heard that the secretary [[Adam Otterburn]] of [[Auldhame Castle|Auldhame]] was imprisoned at [[Dumbarton Castle]] for speaking with the banished Douglas family and the former comptroller, [[James Colville (judge)|James Colville]] was in prison for "his accomptes".<ref>''State Papers Henry VIII'', vol. 5 (London, 1836), p. 141.</ref>
In 1543, Wood said of [[Regent Arran]] that he spent more on his household than James V. He "haldis ane greit hous and is at mair (more) sumpteous expense nor (than) umquhile (the late) our said soverane lord held in his time".<ref>Amy Blakeway, ''Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland'' (Woodbridge, 2015), pp. 116-7.</ref>
[[Craig Castle]] is near [[Montrose, Scotland|Montrose]] in Maryton parish. David Wood had a charter of the property from [[Cardinal Beaton|David Beaton]] in 1535.
==Marriage and family== His children included: * Andrew Wood.<ref>[[James Balfour Paul]], ''Accounts of the Treasurer'', vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1913), p. 7.</ref> * Agnes Wood, who married John Carnegie of Colluthie (older brother of [[David Carnegie of Colluthie]]), their daughter married Patrick Kinnaird of that Ilk.
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