Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (7 September 1788 – 6 January 1868) was a British politician.

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 (–1847).

His paternal grandparents were Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, a naval officer, and the former Susannah Linzee (a daughter of Edward Linzee). His mother was the daughter and heiress of Francis Wheeler of Whitley Hall near Coventry in Warwickshire, and Jane Smith (a daughter of the banker Abel Smith of Nottingham).

Career

He 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.

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.]]

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, and the former Sarah Yonge (a daughter of Rev. Henry Yonge). Together, they were the parents of two sons and five daughters,

  • Hon. Mary Sophia Hood (1811–1888), who married, as his second wife, John Lee Lee, MP for Wells, in 1841.
  • Hon. Charlotte Hood (1813–1906), who married Horace William Noel Rochfort, son of Col. John Staunton Rochfort, in 1845.
  • 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. 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.

Descendants

Through his daughter Charlotte, he was a grandfather of Maj.-Gen. Sir Alexander Nelson Rochfort (1850–1916), who served as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. 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; and Hon. Mary Hood (1846–1909) (wife of Hugh Seymour, 6th Marquess of Hertford).

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