Charles Thorold Wood, snr (15 January 1777 – 13 March 1852) was an English ornithologist.
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
- ^ "Alumni Oxoniensis". Oxford University. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ John Debrett, George William Collen, The Baronetage of England (1840), p. 544; Google Books.
- ^ "Double portrait of William Thorold Wood and Charles Thorold Wood". Bridgeman Images. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ "Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (1756-1823)". Christies. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ "Foston Hall, in Derbyshire, the residence of Mr. Charles Thorold". The Spectaor Archive. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
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