Portrait of a Major Frederick Henry Wood, three-quarter-length, in the uniform of the Yorkshire Hussars, a sabre in his left hand; and Portrait of his wife Charlotte Augusta Wood, seated three-quarter-length, in a white dress, holding a closed fan, a wood

Frederick Henry Wood, of Hollin Hall and Copmanthorpe, Yorkshire, was the eldest son of Henry Wood (for whom see lot 16) and his wife Anne Eliza, fifth daughter of John Eckersall of Claverton House, near Bath. He served in the Yorkshire Hussars from 1835 to 1861. He married Charlotte Augusta (d.1861) eldest daughter of John Rothery, of Leeds, in 1840 by whom she had two sons and a daughter. Following the death of his first wife he married secondly, Sarah, only child of Captain William Hay, in 1865.