Viscount Bridport
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Viscount Bridport is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation became extinct in 1814, while the secon
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 1795 portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott.
Admiral of the Red Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, KB was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Viscount Bridport
…Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation became extinct in 1814, while the second creation is extant. Sir Alexander Hood, younger brother of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, was a prominent naval commander. In 1794, he was created Baron Bridport in the Peerage of Ireland…
Portrait of Alexander Hood by Joshua Reynolds, 1763. Minerva is shown in the background recapturing Warwick.
Cricket House, built in 1786 by Admiral Hood to the design of Sir John Soane
Monument to Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, Cricket St Thomas Church, Somerset, designed by Sir John Soane (1753–1837). Displaying the arms of Hood, West and Bray, with quarterings, topped by the Hood crest of A Cornish Chough resting on an anchor