ABSTRACT
Between the two bullion articles came the summer vacation of 1811. Malthus spent ten days in Lincolnshire, after a visit from Mr and Mrs Eckersall, his first cousins and parents-in-law, who went on from Haileybury to stay with their daughter Anne Eliza; she was now married to her ‘amiable and beloved’ Henry Wood, the heir to Hollin Hall, near Ripon. According to family legend, the couple had met in Bath over amateur theatricals. Colonel Wood's account books show that he gave his daughter-in-law a set of jewels which cost £252; he also gave her a quarterly dress allowance of £15, although his unmarried daughters only had £10; but perhaps they did not do too badly, for on 19 October 1810 he noted that he gave the two of them £5 each ‘for their Expenses at Doncaster Races and the Music Meeting at Derby’. 1 Colonel Wood died in 1815, and beautiful Hollin Hall became in due course a lively place for the seven young Woods and their Wynne and Malthus cousins.
