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See also:BRIDPORT, See also:ALEXANDER See also:HOOD, See also:VISCOUNT (1727-1814) , See also:British See also:admiral, was the younger See also:brother of See also:Samuel, See also:Lord Hood, and See also:cousin of See also:air Samuel and See also:Captain Alexander Hood. Entering the See also:navy in See also:January 1741, he was appointed See also:lieutenant of the " See also:Bridgewater" six years later, and in that See also:rank served for ten years in various See also:ships. He was then posted to the " See also:Prince," the See also:flag-See also:ship of See also:Rear-Admiral Saunders (under whom Hood had served as a lieutenant) and in this command served in the Mediterranean for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. `Returning, See also:home, he was appointed to the " See also:Minerva " See also:frigate, in which he was See also:present at See also:Hawke's See also:great victory in See also:Quiberon See also:Bay (20th See also:November 1759)= In 1761 the " Minerva " recaptured, after a See also:long struggle, the " See also:Warwick'" of equal force, and later in the same See also:year Captain Alexander Hood went in the " See also:Africa" to the Mediterranean, where he served until the conclusion of See also:peace. From this time forward he was in continuous employment afloat and ashore, and in the " Robust " was present at the See also:battle of See also:Ushant in 1778. Hood was involved in the See also:court-See also:martial on Admiral (afterwards Viscount) See also:Keppel which followed this See also:action, and although adverse popular feeling was aroused by the course which he took in Keppel's See also:defence, his conduct does not seem to have injured his professional career. Two years later ' he was made rear-admiral of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, and succeeded Kempenfeldt as one of See also:Howe's flag-See also:officers, and in the "See also:Queen" (9o) he was present at the See also:relief of See also:Gibraltar in 1782. For a time he sat in the See also:House of See also:Commons. Promoted See also:vice-admiral in x787, he became K.B. in the following year, and on the occasion of the See also:Spanish armament in 1790 flew his flag again for a See also:short time. On the outbreak of the See also:war with See also:France in 1793 See also:Sir Alexander Hood once more went to See also:sea, this time as Howe's second in command, and he had.his See also:share in the operations which culminated in the " Glorious First of See also:June," and for his services was made See also:Baron Bridport of See also:Cricket St See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas in See also:Somerset
in the Irish See also:peerage. Henceforth Bridport was practically in See also:independent command. In 1795 he fought the much-criticized partial action of the 23rd of June off Belle-Ile, which, however unfavourably it was regarded in some quarters, was counted as a great victory by the public. Bridport's peerage was made See also:English, and he became vice-admiral of See also:England. In 1796–1797 he practically directed the war from See also:London, rarely hoisting his flag afloat See also:save at such See also:critical times as that of the Irish expedition in 1797. In the following year he was about to put to sea when the Spithead See also:fleet mutinied. He succeeded at first in pacifying the See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew of his flag-ship, who had no See also:personal grudge against their admiral, but a few days later the See also:mutiny See also:broke out afresh, and this time was uncontrollable. For a whole See also:week the mutineers were supreme, and it was only by the greatest exertions of the old Lord Howe that See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order was then restored and the men returned to See also:duty. After the mutiny had been suppressed, Bridport took the fleet to sea as See also:commander-in-See also:chief in name as well as in fact, and from 1798 to 1800 personally directed the See also:blockade of See also:Brest, which See also:grew stricter and stricter as time went on. In 1800 he was relieved by St See also:Vincent, and retired from active duty after fifty-nine years' service. In See also:reward for his See also:fine See also:record his peerage was made a viscounty. He spent the remaining years of his See also:life in retirement. He died on the and of May 1814. The viscounty in the English peerage died with him; the Irish See also:barony passed to the younger See also:branch of his brother's See also:family, for whom the viscounty was recreated in 1868.
See See also:Charnock, Biographia Navalis, vi. 153; See also:Naval See also:Chronicle, i. 265 ; Ralfe, See also:Nay. ,Biog. i. 202.
End of Article: BRIDPORT, ALEXANDER HOOD, VISCOUNT (1727-1814)
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