Charles Thorold Wood

Charles Thorold Wood, snr (15 January 1777 – 13 March 1852) was an English ornithologist.

For other people named Charles Wood, see Charles Wood (disambiguation).

He was born the eldest of the 9 children of Willoughby Wood, of Alford, Lincolnshire, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and his wife, Elizabeth Thorold. Charles matriculated at Merton College, Oxford on 26 October 1795.[1]

He was a captain in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (blue). He was a keen ornithologist and the author of The Ornithological Guide (1835).

He married Jane, daughter of Sir John Thorold, 9th Baronet, in 1812 and lived in Thoresby, Lincolnshire.[2] They had five sons, Willoughby, William, Charles jnr, Neville and Arthur, four of whom were painted as children by Sir Henry Raeburn, and three daughters.[3][4] In 1836 the family made a dramatic escape from a serious fire when they were living at Foston Hall in Derbyshire.[5] Neville was also an amateur ornithologist.

References
  • Mullens and Swann - A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917)

Further reading

Birkhead, T. R., Montgomerie, R. A vile passion for altering names: the contributions of Charles Thorold Wood jun. and Neville Wood to ornithology in the 1830s, Archives of Natural History. October 2016, 43:2, p. 221–236 http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/anh.2016.0380

Notes
  1. "Alumni Oxoniensis". Oxford University. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  2. John Debrett, George William Collen, The Baronetage of England (1840), p. 544; Google Books.
  3. "Double portrait of William Thorold Wood and Charles Thorold Wood". Bridgeman Images. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  4. "Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (1756-1823)". Christies. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  5. "Foston Hall, in Derbyshire, the residence of Mr. Charles Thorold". The Spectaor Archive. Retrieved 8 November 2017.


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