Author: Wood, Henry Richard
Biography:
WOOD, Henry Richard (1786-1844: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the eldest surviving son of Cordelia (Delia) Schaak (1754-1849) and her husband Colonel Richard Wood (1750-1815) of Hollin Hall, Littlethorpe (near Ripon), Yorkshire; they had married at the bride's parish of Askay Bryan on 3 May 1774. Henry was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, where he was baptised on 6 Mar. 1786. Nothing is known about his upbringing or education. On 13 July 1810 he married Anne Eliza Eskersall (1790-1875) of Claverton House, near Bath, in Somerset. In 1815, on the death of his father, he inherited the family estate in Littlethorpe; his father had undertaken extensive renovations of the sixteenth-century house which still stands. He and Anne had three sons and one daughter. Wood was one of the founders and the chairman of the Ripon Brunswick Protestant Association, established in 1826. He died at home in Hollin Hall on 16 Apr. 1844. His will left directions for burial in the family vault in Ripon Cathedral and he was buried there on 24 Apr. 1844. (ancestry.co.uk 21 Dec. 2020, 30 Oct. 2025; findmypast.co.uk 21 Dec. 2020, 30 Apr. 2025; Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette 19 July 1811; Saint James's Chronicle 29 Nov. 1828, 20 Apr. 1844) SR