Charles Thorold Wood
Charles Thorold Wood (15 June 1777 – 13 March 1852) was an English ornithologist.
He was the eldest son of Willoughby Wood, of Alford, Lincolnshire. He was the author of The Ornithological Guide (1835).
Wood was a captain in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. He married Jane, daughter of Sir John Thorold, 9th Baronet, in 1812.[1]
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
- ↑ John Debrett, George William Collen, The Baronetage of England (1840), p. 544; Google Books.
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