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date: 08 March 2021

Hood, Sir Samuel, first baronetlocked

(1762–1814)
  • J. K. Laughton
  • , revised by Michael Duffy

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Hood, Sir Samuel, first baronet (1762–1814), naval officer, third son of Samuel Hood of Kingsland, Dorset, and Anne (d. 1775), daughter of James Bere of Westbury, Wiltshire, was born on 27 November 1762. Captain Alexander Hood (1758–1798) was his brother. He entered the navy in 1776 on the ...

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National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Maritime Museum, London
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