Wood, Henry, London, carver and gilder (1758–1801). At Little Stanhope St, Mayfair in 1775 when he insured a house for £100. In 1777 at New St, near ‘The Swan’, Knightsbridge, where he took out insurance cover of £1,200 on his house. From 1779 shown at Sloane St, Knightsbridge and in February 1792 at 26 Sloane Sq. In 1779 insurance cover was £600 on his house but by February 1792 the total insurance valuation had risen to £2,850. This included £500 for his utensils and stock and £100 for his workshop. Other houses covered by this policy included 4, 5 and 12 Sloane St, and some of these properties may have been used in connection with his business. Also insured was 3 North St in the tenure of a baker. In 1786 subscribed to George Richardson's Treatise on the Five Orders of Architecture. In 1758 a Henry Wood supplied three pieces of japanned work to Croome Court, Worcs. costing £38 12s. In 1781 three stools were provided and a price of £9 9s paid ‘as per agreement by valuation of Henry Holland Junr.’ It cannot be asserted with certainty that the men responsible for these two commissions were the same person and 1758 is a much earlier date than any other known commissions of Henry Wood. This craftsman is however very much associated with the architect Henry Holland. It was Holland who was responsible for the employment of Wood at Woburn Abbey, Beds. where extensive works were carried out for Francis, 5th Duke of Bedford. In 1792 he was paid £381 0s 8d for carving and gilding at Woburn and £191 for picture and mirror frames there. In the same year he produced a looking-glass frame, carved and gilt for the Drawing Room, Oakley House at £10 for John, Marquess of Tavistock. Four chimney pieces in the Breakfast Room and bedrooms there were carved at a cost of £9 16s 9½d. Payments of £438 11s 2d were made between March and July 1793 for work at Bedford House, London, and in the following year Wood was in receipt of £1,047 9s 8d for work undertaken as shown in Holland's accounts. As late as April 1800 Wood was being paid for gilding mouldings on picture frames in the Inner Library at Woburn. Apart from his work in wood, this maker also acted as a sculptor in stone. Gunnis records commissions for Lord Clive at Claremont, Surrey, 1771–72, Lord Craven at Benham 1775, Carlton House 1783–89, Cleveland House for the Duke of Bridgewater in 1796 and Mote Park, Maidstone for Lord Romney in 1801. [GL, Sun MS vol. 239, p. 269; vol. 262, p. 261; vol. 273, p. 297; vol. 382, ref. 596337; V&A archives; Bedford Office, London; Gunnis]