Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport,
KB (
December 2,
1726 –
May 2,
1814) was an
officer of the
British Royal Navy during the
French Revolutionary Wars and
Napoleonic Wars, and the brother of
Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.He entered the navy in January 1741, and was appointed
Lieutenant of HMS Bridgewater in 1746, and in that rank served for ten years in various ships. He was promoted to
Commander in 1756 and served as
flag captain for
Rear Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, first in
Prince in the
Mediterranean (the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Saunders, under whom Hood had served as a lieutenant), then in Minerva frigate. In the
Seven Years' War he fought at the
Battle of Quiberon Bay on
20 November1759, and in 1761 Minerva recaptured after a long struggle, the 60-gun Warwick of equal force, which had been captured by the French ship Atlante in 1756. For the remainder of the war, from 1761 to
1763 Hood was captain of
Africa in the Mediterranean.
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