 His wife Elizabeth Barry (d.1930) (daughter of Major William Norton Barry of Castlecor, Kilbrin, County Cork, Ireland) was the widow of John Baring Short (d.1880), the tenant of Hudscott before Arthur Fortescue.He was the son of Rev.William Thorold, Rector and Patron of Warkleigh, which parish is adjacent to the south of Hudscott, himself the grandson of Sir John Thorold, 9th Baronet (1734-1815), MP for Lincolnshire of Syston Park, near South Kesteven, Lincolnshire.