Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (7 September 1788 – 6 January 1868), of Redlynch House in Wiltshire, of Cricket House at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, and of 12 Wimpole Street in Westminster,[1] was a British politician and peer.
Early life
Arms of Hood, Baron Bridport (1794), Viscount Bridport (1868): Azure, a fret argent on a chief or three crescents sable.[2]
He was born in 1788, the second son of Henry Hood, 2nd Viscount Hood (1753–1836), Chamberlain of the Household to Queen Caroline and the former Jane Wheeler (c. 1754–1847).
His paternal grandparents were Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, a naval officer, and the former Susannah Linzee (a daughter of Edward Linzee).[3][4] His mother was the daughter and heiress of Francis Wheeler of Whitley Hall near Coventry in Warwickshire, [5] and Jane Smith (a daughter of the banker Abel Smith of Nottingham).[5][a]
He was returned as a ToryMember of Parliament for Heytesbury, 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.[7]
Arms of William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, 2nd Duke of Bronte, being the augmented arms of his younger brother Admiral Horatio Nelson further augmented with a fess wavy azure thereon inscribed the word "Trafalgar" or. Today quartered by Hood, Viscount Bridport, descendants of the 1st Earl's daughter, the 3rd Duchess of Bronte.[8]
Following the death of her father in 1835, his wife Charlotte, then known as Lady Bridport, inherited her father's Sicilian dukedom becoming suo jure3rd Duchess of Bronte, however, his British titles descended by special remainder, together with his British estates, to his nephew Thomas Bolton, who assumed the surname "Nelson" in accordance with the terms of the bequest.
Through his wife he inherited the Castello di Nelson, a grand manor house built by Horatio Nelson, and its large estate between Bronte and Maniace in Sicily[13] on the north-west foothills of Mount Etna, 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.[14]
^"Redlynch House and park, 25 acres, was bought before 1833 by William, Earl Nelson, and used by his son-in-law Samuel Hood, Baron Bridport. It had been sold by 1837 to Thomas William Coventry". (A P Baggs, Elizabeth Crittall, Jane Freeman and Janet H Stevenson, 'Parishes: Downton', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 11, Downton Hundred; Elstub and Everleigh Hundred, ed. D A Crowley (London, 1980), pp. 19-77 [1])
^ abcG.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 318.
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