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 24 BRIDPORT. BRIDPORT, BRIDPORT OF CRICKET ST. THOMAS, AND BRIDPORT OF CRICKET ST. THOMAS AND OF BRONTE. Barony [I.] l. ALEXANDER IIood, yr. br. of Suinue], Viscount I 1791 Hood (the celebrated Admiral) being 2nd and yst. s. of the Rev. Samuel Hood, Vicar of Butleigh, eo. Somerset, by Mary, da. of "R nnv Richard Hoskihs of Beauiinster, Dorset, was 4. 2 Dee. 172ii, and, r *' entering the Royal Navy, became Lieut., 17 Hi: Commander and Post I. 1796, Capt., 175b' ; Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, 176S . Hear Admiral of to the White, 17S0 ; Vice Adm. of the White, 1 787 ; Hear Adm. of Ort. 1814 Britain, 1700 ; Vice Adm. of the lied, 1793; Admiral of the Blue, 1 ' 179* ; of the White, 1795 ; Vice Admiiiai. of Gkkat Britain. 1796 ; tr n„„„t TO EJott. » chief of the Channel Fleet, 1797-1800 ; Hen. of .Marines, 1S00; VHBOuaw, uu , Admiral of the Bed, 1805. BewasJLP. for Bridgewater, 1734-90; I. 1800, and for Buckingham, 1790-96. In 1757 he captured two French ships to of war in Hyercs Bay ; in 17S1 he recaptured, with great bravery, an 1814. English man of war, called " the Warwick ;" in 1782 DC distinguished himself, as Rear Admiral, at the relief of Gibraltar under Lord Howe. He was accordingly cr. K.B. 7 May 1788. He was second in com- mand, on board "the Royal George," at the famous victory of Lord Howe, on 1 June 1794. On 14 Nov. 1791 he was, accordingly, cr. BARON BRlbl'ORT [I.] with a spec, ran., failing heirs male of las body, to Samuel Hood, 2nd s. of [his nephew] Henry Hood of Catherington, Hants ; rem. to the heirs male of the body of [his uncle] Alexander Hood, late of Mosterton, Dorset, docd.(") both in like maimer. On 23 June 1795, he, with an inferior force, gained a memorable victory over the French fleet (twelve ships of the line and two frigates) off Port L'Orient. He was, accordingly, on 13 June 1796, cr. BARON BRIDPORT OF CRICKET ST. THOMAS, co. Somer- set ; and, on 16 June 1800, was cr. VISCOUNT BRIDPORT OF CRICKET ST. THOMAS abovenamed. lie hi. firstly, 1761, Mary, da. of Richard WkST, D.D., Preben- dary of Winchester, by Mary, sister of Richard, VlSCOONT Coim.ui, and da. of Sir Richard Temple, Bart. She d. 12 Sep. 1780. He m. secondly, 26 June 1788, at St. Marylebone, Mary Sophia, only surv. da. and h. of Thomas Rkay of Edmonton, Midx., by his 3rd "wife, Elizabeth, da. and coheir of John Sadi.ieh. He (/. s.p. 3 May 1814, when his Jlarony and Yiscountcy [G.B.] became extinct, but the Irish Barony devolved as under. His widow d. at Cricket St. Thomas, 18 Feb. 1881, aged 85. Barony [I.] 2. Samuel (Hood), Bahon Bkidpout [I.J, great nephew, and, under the spec. rem. in the creation of that Peerage, heir. He IT. 1814.. was 2nd S. of Henry, 2nd Vi.scih-.nt Hood ok Whitley, by Jane, da. and h. of Francis WHKtKH of Whitley afsd., which Henry was s. and h. of Samuel, the 1st Viscount Hood, who was elder br. to Alexander, Baron Bridport abovenamed. He was 6. 7 Dec. 1788 ; was ed. at Trin. Coll. Cambridge; M.A. 1809 ; was M.P. for Heytesbury. 1S12-1S. He m. 3 July 1810, Charlotte Alary, suo jure Duchess of Bronte in Sicily, ( b ) being only da. and h. of William (Nelson), 1st Eahl Nelson (Duke of Bronte in Sicily), by his 1st wife Sarah, da. of Rev. Henry Yonge. He d. 6 Jan. 1868, in his 80th year, at Cricket St. Thomas. His widow, who was 6. 20 Sep. 1787, sue. her father in his Sicilian title 28 Feb. 1835,( c ) and d. 29 Jan. 1873, in her 86th year, at Cricket St. Thomas afsd. ( ,l ) These were the two surv. sons of Samuel Hood of Kiugsland, Dorset, the only 8. that had issue of the said Alexander, riz. : (1) Alexander, Capt. R.N., who '/. 21 April 1796, leaving an only son Alexander Hood, who, in 1815, sue. his uncle, Sir Samuel Hood, Bart., as second Baronet. (2) Samuel Hood, Vice Admiral, who in 1S09 was cr. a Baronet, with a spec. rem. to his nephew Alexander Hood abovenamed. ( b ) For her succession as such da., according to the law of Sicily, see " Nelson v. Bridport" in Beacon's Chancery Reports, viii, 547. (") The representation of the Nelson family ami of the celebrated Lord Nelson vested in this lady and remains in her issue ; tho' the limitation of the Barony of Nelson (as also of the Earldom, cr. subsequently, with, naturally enough, a like rem.) carried the Peerage dignity, in 1.835, to Thomas Bolton, who did not represent the Grantee (being son of a sister), instead of to Lady Bridport (nee Nelson), who (as da. and h. of the only brother of the Grautee who left issue) was such representative.