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Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries
PC (26 September 1853 – 4 June 1917), known as Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bt, until 1911, was a British
Conservative Party
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politician. He served as
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is the official title of the most senior whip of the governing party in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Today, any official links between the Treasury and this office are nominal and the title ...
(Chief Whip) under
Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (, ; 25 July 184819 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the ...
from 1902 to 1905.
Background
Fuller-Acland-Hood was the son of
Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 3rd Baronet
Captain Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 3rd Baronet (20 April 1819 – 29 April 1892) was an English Conservative Party politician, landowner and farmer.
Alexander Bateman Periam Hood was born on 20 April 1819 in Bath, Somerset, England, the s ...
, by his wife Isabel, daughter of Sir Peregrine Palmer-Fuller-Acland, 2nd Baronet. He was a descendant of Alexander Hood, uncle of
Lord Hood and
Lord Bridport. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1892. In 1905 he also succeeded his kinsman as
6th Baronet of Hartington Hall.
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Political career
Fuller-Acland-Hood sat as Member of Parliament
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for Wellington, Somerset
Wellington is a market town in rural Somerset, a county in the west of England, situated south west of Taunton in the Somerset West and Taunton district, near the border with Devon, which runs along the Blackdown Hills to the south of the t ...
from 1892 until 1911. He was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under Lord Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen y ...
in 1900, a post he held until November 1902, and then served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is the official title of the most senior whip of the governing party in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Today, any official links between the Treasury and this office are nominal and the title ...
(Chief Whip) under Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (, ; 25 July 184819 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the ...
from August 1902 until 1905. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1904 and raised to the peerage as Baron St Audries, of St Audries
West Quantoxhead is a small village and civil parish in the Somerset West and Taunton district of Somerset, England. It lies on the route of the Coleridge Way and on the A39 road at the foot of the Quantock Hills, from East Quantoxhead, from W ...
in the County of Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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, in 1911.
Family
Lord St Audries married the Hon. Mildred Rose Evelyn, daughter of Dayrolles Blakeney Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry
Dayrolles Blakeney Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, DL, JP (22 January 1828 – 8 February 1914), was an Irish hereditary peer, elected as a representative peer in 1871.
Lord Ventry was the son of Thomas de Moleyns, 3rd Baron Ventry. I ...
, in 1888. They had two sons and two daughters. He died in June 1917, aged 63, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Alexander. Lady St Audries died in October 1949.
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