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Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport

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Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport, albumen print carte de visite by Camille Silvy, from the album of his friend Col. Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner
Arms of Hood (Baron Bridport (1794), Viscount Bridport (1868): Azure, a fret argent on a chief or three crescents sable[1]

Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (7 September 1788 – 6 January 1868) of Redlynch in Wiltshire and of 12 Wimpole Street, Westminster,[2] was a British peer.

Origins

He was born in 1788, the 2nd son of Henry Hood, 2nd Viscount Hood (1753-1836), Chamberlain of the Household to Queen Caroline, by his wife Jane Wheler (c.1754-1847), daughter and heiress of Francis Wheler by his wife Jane Smith, a daughter of the banker Abel Smith[disambiguation needed] of Nottingham.[3]

Career

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining an M.A. degree in 1809.[4] He served as a Tory Member of Parliament for Heytesbury in Wiltshire from 1812 to 1818.

Succeeds great uncle

In 1814 he succeeded his childless great-uncle Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 1st Baron Bridport (1726-1814) as Baron Bridport, under the special remainder of that title in the Peerage of Ireland.

Marriage & issue

On 3 July 1810 in the parish of Marylebone, London, he married Charlotte Mary Nelson (1787–1873), suo jure 3rd Duchess of Bronté in Sicily (an Italian title), only surviving child and heiress of William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, 2nd Duke of Bronté (1757–1835), of Redlynch House in Wiltshire,[5] an elder brother of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, the famous naval hero of the Napoleonic Wars and victor of the Battle of Trafalgar. Through his wife he also inherited the Castello di Nelson, a grand manor house built by Horatio Nelson at great expense, and its large estate between Bronte and Maniace in Sicily[6] on the north-west foothills of Mount Etna, held by his descendants until 1982. He found the local inhabitants "turbulent, restless people" troublesome to the management of the estate, and like his brother the Admiral he never set foot in it.[7] By his wife he had nine children.

References

  1. ^ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968 , pp.174 (Viscount Bridport)
  2. ^ Thomas Robson, The British Herald, 1830[1]
  3. ^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/hood1796.htm
  4. ^ "Hood, Samuel; afterwards Baron Bridport (HT805S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ "Redlynch House and park, 25 acres, was bought before 1833 by William, Earl Nelson, and used by his son-in-law Samuel Hood, Baron Bridport. It had been sold by 1837 to Thomas William Coventry". (A P Baggs, Elizabeth Crittall, Jane Freeman and Janet H Stevenson, 'Parishes: Downton', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 11, Downton Hundred; Elstub and Everleigh Hundred, ed. D A Crowley (London, 1980), pp. 19-77[2])
  6. ^ https://www.icastelli.it/it/sicilia/catania/maniace/castello-di-nelson
  7. ^ The English Duchy ay the foot of Etna[3]
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Heytesbury
1812–1818
With: Charles Duncombe 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Baron Bridport
1814–1868 		Succeeded by

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