Lot Essay
Richard and Elizabeth Wood were the eldest son and elder daughter of Richard Wood and his wife Elizabeth, second daughter of Hutton Perkins, of Mill Hill, Middlesex. Elizabeth married the Hon. Charles Vane (d.1796), sixth son of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard, of Mount Ida, Norfolk, in 1776, by whom she had had an only daughter and heir, Elizabeth Frederica, who married, in 1795, Sir William Langham, 8th Bt., later Sheriff of Northamptonshire. Richard Wood inherited Hollin Hall from his father on the latter's death in 1797.