Samuel Hood (1724 - 1816)

Born 12 Dec 1724 in Thorncombe, Devon, England

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Linzee) Hood — married 25 Aug 1749 in St Thomas, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Descendants

Died 27 Jan 1816 at age 91 in 5 Queen's Sq, Bath, Somerset, England

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Biography

Samuel Hood is Notable.

Samuel Hood son of the Reverend Samuel Hood and his wife, Mary Hoskins was born on the 12th of December 1824.^[1]

On 25th of August 1759 at St Thomas Church in Portsmouth he married Susanna Linzee, ^[2]daughter of Edward Linzee of Portsmouth.^[1]

Samuel was created 1st Viscount Hood of Whitley in Warwickshire on 1 June 1796.

He was appointed Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath in 1815.

Samuel died at 5 Queen's Square, Bath on 27 January 1816 and was buried next to his wife at Greenwich Hospital ^[3] on the 8th of February. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} History of Parliament online 1790-1820: HOOD, Sir Samuel, 1st Bt., 1st Baron Hood (I) (1724-1816), of Catherington, Hants
2. ↑ England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 FHL Film Number 919725, 919730, 919731, 919732, 919733 (St Thomas, Portsmouth 25 August 1749 Samuel Hood married Susanna Linzee) Viewed at Ancestry. Text only
3. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
4. ↑ England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936 RG4: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Kent Anglican Piece 1672: Greenwich, Greenwich Hospital (Anglican), 1813-1819 (February 8th 1816 Lord Viscount Hood, Governor)

• Wikipedia: Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

• The Annual Biography and Obituary (London, 1817) Vol. 1, Page 371

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 27 Hood, Samuel (1724-1816) by John Knox Laughton ‎

• The Complete Peerage........Vol 2. Page 318

• https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hood,_1st_Viscount_Hood

• Thepeerage.com: Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood of Whitley Cites: G.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, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 316

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Robert Cherry for creating WikiTree profile Hood-766 through the import of CherryOttosen_2013-03-19.ged on Mar 19, 2013.