Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (7 September 1788 – 6 January 1868), of Redlynch House in Wiltshire, of Cricket House at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, and of 12 Wimpole Street in Westminster,[1] was a British politician and peer.
Lord Bridport | |
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 Photograph of Lord Bridport, albumen print carte de visite by Camille Silvy, from the album of his friend Col. Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner. | |
| Member of Parliament for Heytesbury | |
| In office 1812–1818 Serving with Charles Duncombe | |
| Preceded by | Dr Charles Moore Viscount FitzHarris |
| Succeeded by | George James Welbore Agar-Ellis William Henry John Scott |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Samuel Hood 7 September 1788 |
| Died | 6 January 1868 (aged 79) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 7 |
| Parent(s) | Henry Hood, 2nd Viscount Hood Jane Wheeler |
| Residence | Redlynch House |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Early life
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He was born in 1788, the second son of Henry Hood, 2nd Viscount Hood (1753–1836), Chamberlain of the Household to Queen Caroline and the former Jane Wheeler (c. 1754–1847).
His paternal grandparents were Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, a naval officer, and the former Susannah Linzee (a daughter of Edward Linzee).[3][4] His mother was the daughter and heiress of Francis Wheeler of Whitley Hall near Coventry in Warwickshire, [5] and Jane Smith (a daughter of the banker Abel Smith of Nottingham).[5][a]
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining an M.A. degree in 1809.[6]
Career
editHe was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for Heytesbury, Wiltshire in 1812, although he appears to have lost interest in Parliament after succeeding to the peerage and did not stand for re-election in 1818.[7]
In 1814, soon after the death in action of his elder brother, he succeeded his childless great-uncle Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 1st Baron Bridport as Baron Bridport, under the special remainder of that title in the Peerage of Ireland.[7]
Personal life
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On 3 July 1810 in the parish of Marylebone, London, Hood married Charlotte Mary Nelson (1787–1873), only surviving child and heiress of the Rev. William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, 2nd Duke of Bronte,[b] and the former Sarah Yonge (a daughter of Rev. Henry Yonge). Together, they were the parents of two sons and five daughters,[7] including:[10]
- Hon. Mary Sophia Hood (1811–1888), who married, as his second wife, John Lee Lee, MP for Wells, in 1841.[11]
- Hon. Charlotte Hood (1813–1906), who married Horace William Noel Rochfort, son of Col. John Staunton Rochfort, in 1845.[12]
- Hon. Jane Sarah Hood (1817–1907), who married Hugh Holbech, son of William Holbech (son of William Holbech), in 1838. After his death in 1849, she married Capt. Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria and son of Rev. Hon. Frederick Hotham (a son of the 2nd Baron Hotham), in 1853. After his death in 1855, she married Capt. William Armytage of the Royal Navy, brother to Sir George Armytage, 5th Baronet, both sons of John Armytage, in 1860.[10]
- Hon. Catherine Louisa Hood (1818–1893), who married Henry Hall of Barton Abbey in 1837.[10]
- Hon. Frances Caroline Hood (1821–1903), who married Sir John Walrond, 1st Baronet, son of Benjamin Bowes Walrond, in 1845.[10]
- Alexander Nelson Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814–1904), also 4th Duke of Bronte; he married Lady Mary Penelope Hill, a daughter of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire, in 1838.[10]
- Hon. Horatio Nelson Hood (1826–1832), who died young.[10]
Hood died on 6 January 1868.[7] He was succeeded by his eldest son, Alexander who was later created Viscount Bridport in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and inherited the dukedom of Bronte from his mother upon her death in 1873.[10]
Italian titles and estates
editFollowing the death of her father in 1835, his wife Charlotte, then known as Lady Bridport, inherited her father's Sicilian dukedom becoming suo jure 3rd Duchess of Bronte, however, his British titles descended by special remainder, together with his British estates, to his nephew Thomas Bolton, who assumed the surname "Nelson" in accordance with the terms of the bequest.
Through his wife he inherited the Castello di Nelson, a grand manor house built by Horatio Nelson, and its large estate between Bronte and Maniace in Sicily[13] 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.[14]
Descendants
editThrough his daughter Charlotte, he was a grandfather of Maj.-Gen. Sir Alexander Nelson Rochfort (1850–1916), who served as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.[15]
Through his son Alexander, he was a grandfather of Arthur Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport (1839–1924); Commander Hon. Horatio Nelson Sandys Hood (1843–1881); Hon. Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte (1854–1937);[16] Hon. Alfred Nelson Hood (1858–1918); Hon. Victor Albert Nelson Hood (1862–1929), Chamberlain to the Governor-General of Australia and Private Secretary to the Governor of Western Australia and the Governor of New South Wales;[17] and Hon. Mary Hood (1846–1909) (wife of Hugh Seymour, 6th Marquess of Hertford).[15]
Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran (1849–1925); Arthur Melville Walrond (1861–1946); Katherine Mary Walrond (1846–1934), who married Charles Arthur Williams Troyte of Huntsham Court; Margaret Walrond, who married Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton of Heatnton Satchville; and Gertrude Walrond (1853–1920), who married Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet, of Holnicote.[15]
References
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- ^ Abel Smith (1686–1756), was a son of Thomas Smith, the founder of Smith's Bank in Nottingham. He was father to Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet "of East Stoke in the County of Nottingham" and of Abel Smith II, MP. Members of the Wheeler and Hood families were buried in St Michael's Church in Coventry.[5]
- ^ Rev. William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, 2nd Duke of Bronte (1757–1835) was Rector of Brandon Parva and later of Hilborough, both in Norfolk, from 1814 seated at Trafalgar Park, Downton in Wiltshire and at nearby Redlynch House in Wiltshire. The 2nd Duke was a younger brother and heir of Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (1758–1805).[9]
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- ^ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, pp. 174 (Viscount Bridport).
- ^ Baugh, Daniel A.; Duffy, Michael. "Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood (1724–1816)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13678. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Lodge, Edmund (1832). Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain: Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of His Majesty, the Nobility, and the Public Collections ; with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions. Harding and Lepard. p. 11.
- ^ a b c "Whitley Coventry". www.coventrysociety.org.uk. 9 November 2022.
- ^ "Hood, Samuel; afterwards Baron Bridport (HT805S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d Thorne, R. G. "HOOD, Hon. Samuel (1788-1868)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.174, Viscount Bridport
- ^ "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 [1])
- ^ a b c d e f g Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 501.
- ^ Jenkins, Terry. "LEE, John Lee (1802-1874), of Orleigh Court, nr. Bideford, Devon". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ Linzee, John William (1917). The Lindeseie and Limesi Families of Great Britain: Including the Probates at Somerset House, London, England, of All the Spellings of the Name Lindeseie from 1300 to 1800. The Fort Hill Press. p. 720. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "Castello Di Nelson | Sicilia | Maniace". icastelli.it.
- ^ "Bronte Insieme/History - The English Duchy ay the foot of Etna, The seven dukes". www.bronteinsieme.it.
- ^ a b c G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 318.
- ^ "ALEXANDER HOOD, DUKE OF BRONTE; Great-Grandnephew of Nelson, 82, Dies--Life Tenant of Admiral's Italian Lands". The New York Times. 3 June 1937. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
- ^ "The Duchy of Bronte di Alexander Nelson Hood [4]".