Viscount Hood
Viscount Hood , of Whitley in the County of Warwick , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Great Britain , which carries the head of the younger (since 1990 only surviving) line of the Hood family .
Award and subordinate titles
The title was bestowed on June 1, 1796, to the famous fleet commander Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Baron Hood . He had already been appointed Baronet , of Catherington in the County of Southampton on May 20, 1778 in the Baronetage of Great Britain , and on September 2, 1782 in the Peerage of Ireland to Baron Hood , of Catherington. On March 27, his wife Susannah was raised in her own right in the Peerage of Great Britain to Baroness Hood , of Catherington in the County of Southampton. Since her son Henry Hood inherited both parents in 1806 and 1816, the titles have been united.
Related peers
Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726-1814) was the younger brother of the 1st Viscount Hood. The second son of the 2nd Viscount Hood, Samuel Hood , inherited the title Baron Bridport (Peerage of Ireland) from him, his great-uncle, and founded the line of the later Viscounts Bridport .
The Fuller-Acland-Hood Baronets of St. Audries or the Barone St. Audries descend from an uncle of the first Viscount Hood. They were the older line of the Hoods, extinct in 1990.
List of Viscounts Hood
Viscount Hood (1796)
- Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724-1816)
- Henry Hood, 2nd Viscount Hood (1753–1836)
- Samuel Hood, 3rd Viscount Hood (1808–1846)
- Francis Hood, 4th Viscount Hood (1838-1907)
- Grosvenor Hood, 5th Viscount Hood (1868–1933)
- Samuel Hood, 6th Viscount Hood (1910–1981)
- Alexander Hood, 7th Viscount Hood (1914–1999)
- Henry Hood, 8th Viscount Hood (* 1958)
The heir to the title is the son of the current Viscount, Hon. Archibald Hood (* 1993).
Barons Hood (1795)
- Susannah Hood, 1st Baroness Hood († 1806)
- Henry Hood, 2nd Baron Hood (1753–1836) (became 2nd Viscount Hood in 1816)
see above because of the other bearers of the title