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Bridport, Viscount (UK, 1868)

Creation: let. pat. 6 Jul 1868

Family name: Hood

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th, Azure a fret Argent on a Chief Or three Crescents Sable (Hood);  2nd and 3rd, Or a Cross patonce Sable a Bend Gules surmounted of another engrailed of the field charged with three Bombs fired proper on a Chief undulated Argent waves of the Sea from which a Palm Tree issuant between a Disabled Ship on the dexter and a Battery in Ruins on the sinister all proper over all a Fess wavy Azure thereon inscribed the word "Trafalgar" Or (Nelson)

Crest:

A Cornish Chough proper the dexter foot resting on the fluke of an Anchor in bend sinister Or

Supporters:

Dexter:  a Figure of Neptune crowned with an Eastern Crown Or a Robe Vert flowing round his loins holding a Trident in the left hand and resting the right on an Anchor also Or;  Sinister:  a Sea Lion Argent the Back Fin and top of the tail Gules resting the sinister paw on an Anchor Or

Motto:

Steady

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Alexander Nelson [Hood], 3rd Baron Bridport later 1st Viscount Bridport, GCB

1st son of Samuel [Hood], 2nd Baron Bridport, by his wife Lady Charlotte Mary Nelson, suo jure Duchess of Bronte, only surv. dau. and hrss. by his first wife of William [Nelson], 1st Earl Nelson

born

23 Dec 1814

mar.

2 Aug 1838 Lady Mary Penelope Hill (d. 15 Jul 1884), 2nd dau. of Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull [Hill], 3rd Marquess of Downshire, by his wife Lady Mary Windsor, sister and cohrss. of Other Archer [Windsor], 6th Earl of Plymouth, and 1st dau. of Other Hickman [Windsor], 5th Earl of Plymouth

died

4 Jun 1904

created

6 Jul 1868 Viscount Bridport, of Cricket St Thomas in the County of Somerset and of Bronte

suc. by

son

note

suc. his father 6 Jan 1868 as 3rd Baron Bridport and his mother 29 Jan 1873 as 4th Duke of Bronte

Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson [Hood], 2nd Viscount Bridport, CB

born

15 Dec 1839

mar.

4 Apr 1872 Lady Maria Georgiana Julia Fox-Strangways (granted rank, style and precedence of the daughter of an Earl;  d. 12 Oct 1922), only dau. of Hon John George Charles Fox-Strangways MP, of Brickworth House, co. Wiltshire (by his wife Amelia Marjoribanks, 3rd dau. of Edward Marjoribanks), 3rd son by his second wife of Henry Thomas [Fox-Strangways], 2nd Earl of Ilchester

died

28 Mar 1924

suc. by

grandson

[Lieut Hon Maurice Henry Nelson Hood]

1st surv. son of Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson [Hood], 2nd Viscount Bridport

born

16 Jan 1881

mar.

19 Nov 1908 Ethel Rose Kendall (d. 17 Apr 1931), 1st dau. of Charles Kendall, of Wokingham, co. Berkshire

died

v.p. 4 Jun 1915

note

father of Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson [Hood], 3rd Viscount Bridport

Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson [Hood], 3rd Viscount Bridport

born

22 May 1911

mar. (1)

11 Jul 1934 (div. 1945) Pamela Aline Mary Baker (mar. (2) 19 Dec 1945 Maj Alexander James Scratchley MC), only dau. of Charles J Baker, of Letcombe Manor, Wantage, co. Oxford

mar. (2)

2 Jan 1946 Shelia Jeanne Agatha Little (widow of W/Cmdr James Hayward Little DFC;  mar. (3) 1988 Alexei V Haieff; d. 24 May 1996), only dau. of Johan Hendrik van Meurs, of London

died

25 Jul 1969

suc. by

son by second wife

Alexander Nelson [Hood], 4th Viscount Bridport

born

17 Mar 1948

mar. (1)

5 Jan 1972 (div. 1979) Linda Jacqueline Paravicini (mar. (2) 15 Dec 1983 Michael John James George Robert [Howard], 21st Earl of Suffolk), dau. of Lt Col Vincent Rudolph Paravicini, of Nutley Manor, Basingstoke, co. Hampshire

only child by first wife

1. Hon Peregrine Alexander Nelson Hood (b. 30 Aug 1974)

mar. (2)

5 Dec 1979 (div. 1999) Nina Rindt (former wife of Phillip Martyn;  widow of Jochen Rindt), dau. of Curt Lincoln, of Helsinki, Finland

only child by second wife

2. Hon Anthony Nelson Hood (b. 7 Jan 1983)

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Titles:

4th Viscount Bridport, of Cricket St Thomas in the County of Somerset and of Bronte

(United Kingdom, let. pat. 6 Jul 1868)

6th Baron Bridport, of Cricket St Thomas, in Ireland

(Ireland, let. pat. 1 Nov 1794)

7th Duke of Bronte

(Sicily, let. pat. 1799)

Address:

1 Place Longemalle, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel:  022-817-7000   Fax:  022-817-7050

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