MILITARY PERSONNEL

Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

1724 - 1816

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Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was an admiral in the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of Antelope, he drove a French ship ashore in Audierne Bay, and captured two privateers in 1757 during the Seven Years' War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood has received more than 467,262 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood is the 1,577th most popular military personnel (down from 1,448th in 2019), the 2,751st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,067th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 1,577 out of 2,058. Before him are Erich Buschenhagen, Rudolf von Bünau, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Jean Decoux, Vang Pao, and Joseph Hooker. After him are Christopher Cradock, Datames, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, Henri Dentz, Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen, and William D. Leahy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 29. Before him are Claude Balbastre, John Michell, Dai Zhen, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ji Yun, and Johann Julius Walbaum. After him are Anton Friedrich Büsching, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Georges-Louis Le Sage, and Jane Colden. Among people deceased in 1816, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 23. Before him are Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Constantine Ypsilantis, Julie Billiart, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Frederick Augustus, Duke of Nassau, and Friedrich Ludwig Schröder. After him are Dorothea Jordan, Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Dorothea Viehmann, Christian Konrad Sprengel, and Edward Charles Howard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 2,751 out of 8,785. Before him are Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), John Gilbert Baker (1834), Minette Walters (1949), Jordan Henderson (1990), Trevor Pinnock (1946), and Harry Styles (1994). After him are Christopher Cradock (1862), Rutherford Alcock (1809), John McVie (1945), Caroline Munro (1949), Phyllida Law (1932), and Graeme Souness (1953).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 72. Before him are Douglas Bader (1910), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Thomas Gage (1719), Trafford Leigh-Mallory (1892), James Somerville (1882), and Charles Warren (1840). After him are Christopher Cradock (1862), Edward Braddock (1695), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), and Timothy Laurence (1955).

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