Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport CB (15 December 1839 – 28 March 1924) of

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, was a

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officer.

Origins

He was the son and heir of General

Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, KB (2 December 17262 May 1814) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Origins He was a younger son of the Rev. Samuel Hood (1691/2 � ...

(1814-1904), 4th

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in Sicily, of

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in Somerset, by his wife Lady Mary Penelope Hill (d.1884), a daughter of

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Career

He became a captain in the

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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

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on 10 May 1892. He served as a Conservative MP for

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(1868–83). In 1898 his father sold the family seat and estate at

in Somerset to the chocolate manufacturer Francis Fry (d.1918), the estate having become heavily mortgaged. 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

and its accompanying large estate, to his younger son Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte (1854–1937), who died unmarried.

Marriage and 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

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(1847–1905). By his wife he had issue including: *Lt. Hon. Maurice Henry Nelson Hood (1881-1915), the 2nd and eldest surviving son and

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, who predeceased his father having been killed in action aged 34 during

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. He married Ethel Rose Kendall (c.1890-1931), an actress under the stage-name "Eileen Orme", a daughter of Charles Kendall of Wokingham in Berkshire and a cousin of the actress

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(1885-1960) (Jessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster). He was the father of: ** Rowland Hood, 3rd Viscount Bridport, 6th Duke of Bronte (1911-1969) of

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, near Bronte, Sicily, a naval commander and

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politician. In 1937 he became the 6th

, a Sicilian title inherited from his childless and unmarried great-uncle

Alexander Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte, , (28 June 1854 – 1 June 1937), of ''Castello di Maniace'', Bronte, Sicily, Bronte, and ''La Falconara'' (now "Villa Nelson"), Taormina, both in Sicily, and of 13 Pelham Crescent, South Kensingt ...

(1854-1937) (a younger son of Alexander Nelson Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814–1904), 4th Duke of Bronte). *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

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, near

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Beach and golf club, Channel Islands, and was buried at Vale Parish Church, St Michel du Valle.

References

External links

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