Viscount Hood
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Viscount Hood, of Whitley in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1796 for the famous naval commander Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Baron Hood. He had alread
Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Admiral of the Red Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of An
Viscount Hood
…Hood, of Whitley in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1796 for the famous naval commander Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Baron Hood. He had already been created a Baronet, of Catherington, in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 20 May 1778, and Baron Hood, of Catherington in the…
The Battle of the Chesapeake, at which Hood was defeated
1795 portrait of Hood by Lemuel Francis Abbott
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery