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Up for sale the "3rd Viscount Hood" Samuel Hood-Tibbits Clipped Signature.
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Viscount Hood, of Whitley in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.
It was created in 1796 for the famous naval commander Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Baron
Hood. He had already been created a Baronet,
of Catherington, in the Baronetage of Great
Britain on 20 May 1778, and Baron Hood, of Catherington in the County of Southampton, in
the Peerage of Ireland in
1782. In 1795, his wife Susannah was created Baroness Hood, of
Catherington in the County of Southampton, in her own right, in the Peerage of
Great Britain. They were both succeeded by their son Henry,
the second Viscount. His grandson, the third Viscount, assumed in 1840 by Royal
licence the additional surname of Tibbits, which was that of his father-in-law.
His great-grandson, the sixth Viscount, was a Diplomat and notably served as
Minister at the British Embassy in Washington from 1958 to 1962 and as Deputy
Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office between 1962 and 1969. As of 2013, the
titles are held by the latter's nephew, the eighth Viscount, who succeeded his
father in 1999. Alexander
Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, was the younger brother of the first
Viscount Hood. In 1794, he had been created Baron Bridport in
the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder to his great-nephew Samuel Hood, the
second son of the second Viscount Hood, who succeeded to the barony on Lord
Bridport's death in 1814, while the viscountcy became extinct. In 1868, the
latter's son, the third Baron, was again created Viscount Bridport (see this title for later history of
these peerages). Also, Alexander Hood, uncle of the first Viscount Hood and
first Viscount Bridport, was the ancestor of the Fuller-Acland-Hood
Baronets of St Audries and the Barons St Audries. Rear-Admiral Sir Horace Hood, younger son of the fourth Viscount Hood, was
also a distinguished naval commander. The family seat is Loders />
