Arthur Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport

Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport CB (15 December 1839 – 28 March 1924) of Guernsey, Channel Islands, was a British Army officer.

Arms of Hood, Viscount Bridport: Azure, a fret argent on a chief or three crescents sable,[1]

Origins

He was the son and heir of General Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814-1904), 4th Duke of Bronte in Sicily, of Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, by his wife Lady Mary Penelope Hill (d.1884), a daughter of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire.

Career

He became a captain in the 25th Foot in 1857, retiring from the army in 1870. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Somerset, and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 10 May 1892. He served as a Conservative MP for West Somerset (1868–83). In 1898 his father sold the family seat and estate at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset to the chocolate manufacturer Francis Fry (d.1918), the estate having become heavily mortgaged.[2] In retirement he was Colonel of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (1872–95). He succeeded to his father's English titles in 1904, aged 65, but his father bequeathed the Sicilian title Duke of Bronte and its accompanying large estate, to his younger son Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronté (1854–1937), who died unmarried.

Marriage & issue

On 4 April 1872 he married Lady Maria Georgiana Julia Fox-Strangways, a daughter of Hon. John George Charles Fox-Strangways (by his wife Amelia Marjoribanks) and a sister of Henry Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester (1847–1905). By his wife he had issue including:

Lt. Hon. Maurice Henry Nelson Hood (1891-1915), son and heir apparent of the 2nd Viscount, killed aged 34 in action at Gallipoli
  • Lt. Hon. Maurice Henry Nelson Hood (1881-1915),[3] the 2nd and eldest surviving son and heir apparent, who predeceased his father having been killed in action aged 34[4] during World War I at Gallipoli. He married Ethel Rose Kendall (c.1890-1931), an actress under the stage-name "Eileen Orme",[5] a daughter of Charles Kendall of Wokingham in Berkshire[6] and a cousin of the actress Denise Orme (1885-1960) (Jessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster).[7] He was the father of:
  • Mary Hood, wife of Sir Herbert Cook, 3rd Baronet;

Death & burial

He died on 8 Mar 1924 at Surprise Cottage, Route De Passeur, in the parish of Vale, Guernsey, near L'Ancresse Beach and golf club, Channel Islands, and was buried at Vale Parish Church, St Michel du Valle.[9]

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References
  1. Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968 , p.174 (Viscount Bridport)
  2. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001142
  3. Hon. Maurice Henry Nelson Hood, Birth Date: 16 Jan 1881; Baptism Date: 6 Mar 1881; Baptism Place: Cricket St Thomas, Somerset, see image
  4. Not 24 as per Imperial War Museum, with photo portrait
  5. Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), December 13, 1908, page 14, column 3
  6. http://www.thepeerage.com/p15214.htm#i152139
  7. Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), December 13, 1908, page 14, column 3
  8. 1968 address "Castello di Maniace" in Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968 , p.174 (Viscount Bridport)
  9. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~haslatter/genealogy/history/bowdens/bk/f4867.htm

Sources
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bt
William Gore-Langton		 Member of Parliament for West Somerset
1868 – 1880
With: William Gore-Langton to 1874
Vaughan Lee from 1874		 Succeeded by
Mordaunt Bisset
Vaughan Lee
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Alexander Nelson Hood		 Viscount Bridport
1904–1924		 Succeeded by
Rowland Hood
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