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Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, KB (2 December 1726 – 2 May 1814), of Cricket St Thomas, Somerset, was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
General Alexander Nelson Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 4th Duke of Bronte, GCB, DL (23 December 1814 – 4 June 1904) was a British Army officer and courtier.
The 3rd Viscount Bridport was a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy and also held minor political office from 1939 to 1940 under Neville Chamberlain . The titles are currently held by his only surviving son, Alexander Hood, the 4th Viscount Bridport and 7th Duke of Bronte, who succeeded in 1969. [3]
Son of Reverend Samuel Hood and brother of 1st Viscount Hood, entered the sea service at an early age and rose to be a great naval commader. His capture of two French vessels of war in two actions in Hyeres Bay, in 1757 and his retaking of the Warwick in 1761, won distinction; and his conduct as Rear Adm under Lord Howe, at the relief of ...
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Admiral; second-in-command to Lord Howe at 'The Glorious First of June', 1794, one of the earliest naval victories in the war against France. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, blockading Brest almost continuously, 1797-1800.
Sir Alexander Arthur Hood 1st Viscount Bridport 1726-1814. He was born on 2 December 1726 at Thorncombe, near Axminster in Somerset, the second son of the Reverend Samuel Hood, vicar of Butleigh, and of his wife, Mary Hoskins.
Created 1st Viscount Bridport in 1800, the sitter was the younger brother of Samuel, 1st Viscount Hood, and commanded the frigate Minerva, 32 guns, at Quiberon Bay in 1759. In 1778 he commanded the 'Robust', 74 guns, in Palliser's division of the fleet at Ushant and took his side in the subsequent courts martial known as 'the Keppel affair'.
