page_title: Arthur Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport
section_title: Marriage & issue
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport / Marriage & issue
caption_attribution_description: Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division Lieutenant the Honourable Maurice Henry Nelson Hood served with the Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division. He had joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was last seen alive on 4 June 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign, aged 24. Along with 20 other men, he had come under heavy fire in a trench subsequently reoccupied by Turkish soldiers. He is commemorated at the Helles Memorial. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.
context_page_description: Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport CB of Guernsey, Channel Islands, was a British Army officer.
context_section_description: On 4 April 1872 he married Lady Maria Georgiana Julia Fox-Strangways, a daughter of Hon. John George Charles Fox-Strangways (by his wife  Amelia Marjoribanks) and a sister of Henry Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester (1847–1905). By his wife he had issue including:
  Lt. Hon. Maurice Henry Nelson Hood (1881-1915), the 2nd and eldest surviving son and heir apparent, who predeceased his father having been killed in action aged 34 during World War I at Gallipoli. He married Ethel Rose Kendall (c.1890-1931), an actress under the stage-name "Eileen Orme", a daughter of Charles Kendall of Wokingham in Berkshire and a cousin of the actress Denise Orme (1885-1960) (Jessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster). He was the father of:
  Rowland Hood, 3rd Viscount Bridport, 6th Duke of Bronte (1911-1969) of Castello di Maniace, near Bronté, Sicily, a naval commander and Conservative politician. In 1937 he became the 6th Duke of Bronte, a Sicilian title inherited from his childless and unmarried great-uncle Alexander Hood, 5th Duke of Bronté (1854-1937) (a younger son of Alexander Nelson Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814–1904), 4th Duke of Bronté).
  Mary Hood, wife of Sir Herbert Cook, 3rd Baronet;
caption: Lt. Hon. Maurice Henry Nelson Hood (1891-1915), son and heir apparent of the 2nd Viscount, killed aged 34 in action at Gallipoli
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