Hood, Samuel, Viscount

a distinguished admiral, born at Thorn com be; entered the navy in 1740, and rising rapidly in his profe ion evinced high qualities as a leader; in 1782 he brilliantly outmanoeuvred De Gra e in the West Indies, and under Rodney played a conspicuous part in the destruction of the French fleet at the battle of Dominica, for which he was rewarded with an Irish peerage; he defeated Fox in the celebrated Westminster election, became a Lord of the Admiralty, and as commander of the Mediterranean fleet during the revolutionary wars, captured the French fleet at Toulon and reduced Corsica; in 1796 he was created a viscount (1724-1816).