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Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

1724 - 1816

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Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of Antelope, Hood drove a French ship ashore in Audierne Bay, and captured two privateers in 1757 during the Seven Years' War. He held senior command as Commander-in-Chief, North American Station and then as Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands Station. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood is the 1,627th most popular military personnel (down from 1,578th in 2019), the 3,255th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,752nd in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 1,627 out of 2,058. Before him are Davit Bek, Polina Gelman, Alexios Branas, Arrhidaeus, Leonhard Kaupisch, and Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires. After him are Itō Sukeyuki, Koos de la Rey, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Filipp Oktyabrsky, Juan Martín Díez, and Yevfimiy Putyatin.

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Among people born in 1724, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 29. Before him are John Smeaton, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Gottfried Heinrich Bach, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Johann Julius Walbaum, and Dai Zhen. After him are Ji Yun, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Georges-Louis Le Sage, and Jane Colden. Among people deceased in 1816, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 28. Before him are Dorothea Viehmann, Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau, Hipólito Ruiz López, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Dorothea Jordan, and Friedrich Ludwig Schröder. After him are Edward Charles Howard, Christian Konrad Sprengel, Domenico Vandelli, Samuel Dexter, Gouverneur Morris, and James McHenry.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 3,256 out of 8,785. Before him are Stella McCartney (1971), Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Jamie Oliver (1975), Thelma Hopkins (1936), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), and Alex Salmond (1954). After him are Samuel Morland (1625), Anthony Caro (1924), Nick Rhodes (1962), Anthony R. Hunter (1943), John Taylor (1933), and Brian Connolly (1945).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 80. Before him are Douglas Bader (1910), Edward Braddock (1695), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Sidney Smith (1764), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), and James Somerville (1882). After him are William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Flora Sandes (1876), Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Thomas Gage (1719), Charles Warren (1840), and George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697).

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