Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, English admiral and politician (born 1724)

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

Royal Navy officer and politician (1724–1816)

Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of Antelope, Hood drove a French ship ashore in Audierne Bay, and captured two privateers in…