SamuelHood 2ndBaronBridport ByCamilleSilvy 1862

Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (7 September 1788 – 6 January 1868), of Redlynch House in Wiltshire, of Cricket House at

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in Somerset, and of 12 Wimpole Street in Westminster, was a British politician and peer.

Family background

He was born in 1788, the second son of

Henry Hood, 2nd Viscount Hood Henry Hood, 2nd Viscount Hood (1753–1836) was an English peer. He is known for his relationship with Caroline of Brunswick. Life He was the third son of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, a naval officer, and his wife Susannah Linzee; his elder brot ...

(1753–1836), Chamberlain of the Household to Queen Caroline, by his wife Jane Whe(e)ler (c.1754–1847). She was daughter and heiress of Francis Whe(e)ler of

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near

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in Warwickshire, by his wife Jane Smith, a daughter of the banker Abel Smith I (1686–1756) of Nottingham: a son of Thomas Smith (1631–1699), the founder of

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in Nottingham and father of

Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet (1714-1769) of Smith House (later " Bromley House"), Angel Row, Nottingham and of Stoke Hall in the parish of East Stoke in Nottinghamshire, was a member of the Smith family of bankers, who established Smith's Ban ...

(1713–1769) "of East Stoke in the County of Nottingham" and of Abel Smith II (1717–1788), MP. Members of the Wheeler and Hood families were buried in St Michael's Church in Coventry.

Education and political career

He was educated at

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, obtaining an

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degree in 1809. He was returned as a

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for

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, 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.

Succeeded as Baron Bridport

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 (1726–1814) as

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, under the

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of that title in the

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Personal life

On 3 July 1810 in the parish of

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, London, Hood married

Charlotte Mary Nelson Charlotte Mary Hood, Baroness Bridport, 3rd Duchess of Bronte (née Nelson; 20 September 1787 – 29 January 1873) was the daughter of William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson and Sarah Yonge. She died at the age of 85 in Cricket St. Thomas, Somerse ...

(1787–1873), ''

suo jure ''Suo jure'' is a Latin phrase, used in English to mean 'in his own right' or 'in her own right'. In most nobility-related contexts, it means 'in her own right', since in those situations the phrase is normally used of women; in practice, especi ...

'' 3rd Duchess of Bronte in Sicily (an Italian title), only surviving child and heiress of the Rev. William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, 2nd Duke of Bronte (1757–1835). He was

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Brandon Parva Brandon Parva is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne, in the South Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is near East Dereham and Norwich. History Brandon Parva's ...

and later of

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, both in Norfolk, from 1814 seated at Trafalgar Park, Downton in Wiltshire and at nearby Redlynch House in Wiltshire. Through his wife he inherited the '' Castello di Nelson'', a grand

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built by

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, and its large estate between Bronte and

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in Sicily on the north-west foothills of

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, 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. Hood died on 6 January 1868. By his wife he had two sons and five daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Alexander (1814–1904) who was later

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and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bridport, Samuel Hood 1788 births 1868 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies

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