Samuel Hood, first viscount Hood

(1724-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816 NRA: Hood Samuel (1724-1816) 1st Viscount Hood Admiral DNB: Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood (1724-1816), naval officer LBT ID: LdHood1 VIAF ID: 39737667 LOC ID: nr92033276	B/BAP: 1724-12-12 DIED: 1816-01-27
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British naval officer and peer; after serving in the American war he was a lord of the Admiralty (1788-93); as commander in the Mediterranean he captured Corsica in 1794. In 1804 he married the Hon. Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie, friend of Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Samuel Hood, first viscount Hood: Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 24 July 1788 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 4 August 1788 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to John Leyden, 25 August 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1811 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. II. 1785-1788 Found 1: ¶ 60 Ch. VII. 1759-1791 Found 1: ¶ 25 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 1