Arthur Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport
Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport CB (15 December 1839 – 28 March 1924) of Guernsey, Channel Islands, was a British Army officer. Origins. He was the son and heir of General Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814-1904), 4th Duke of Bronte in Sicily, of Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, by his wife Lady Mary Penelope Hill (d.1884), a daughter of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire. Career. He became a captain in the 25th Foot in 1857, retiring from the army in 1870. He served as a Justice of the Peace for  Somerset, and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 10 May 1892. He served as a Conservative MP for West Somerset (1868–83). In 1898 his father sold the family seat and estate at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset to the chocolate manufacturer Francis Fry (d.1918), the estate having become heavily mortgaged. In retirement he was Colonel of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (1872–95). He succeeded to his father's English titles in 1904, aged 65, but his father bequeathed the Sicilian title Duke of Bronte and its accompanying large estate, to his younger son Sir Alexander  Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronté (1854–1937), who died unmarried. Marriage and issue. 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: Death & burial. He died on 8 Mar 1924 at Surprise Cottage, Route De Passeur, in the parish of Vale, Guernsey, near L'Ancresse Beach and golf club, Channel Islands, and was buried at Vale Parish Church, St Michel du Valle. Arthur Hood, 2nd