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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 438,726 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood is the 1,450th most popular military personnel, the 3,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 83rd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 1,450 out of 1,468. Before him are Richard S. Ewell, Conrad Albrecht, Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Ian Hamilton, and William Guarnere. After him are David Stirling, Dietrich Kraiss, Harold Rainsford Stark, Malik Ambar, Juan Aldama, and George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 26. Before him are John Michell, Claude Balbastre, John Smeaton, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, Dai Zhen, 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 Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Constantine Ypsilantis, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Edward Charles Howard, and Friedrich Ludwig Schröder. After him are Dorothea Jordan, Christian Konrad Sprengel, Hipólito Ruiz López, 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 3,075 out of 7,765. Before him are Graham Hancock (1950), Roger Dean (1944), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957), Martin Donnelly (1964), and Andrew Marvell (1621). After him are Anthony Hope (1863), John McDouall Stuart (1815), Carey Mulligan (1985), C. P. Snow (1905), Robert Simson (1687), and Peter Grant (1935).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood ranks 83. Before him are Christopher Cradock (1862), Roy Urquhart (1901), Thomas Gage (1719), Tom Phillips (1888), John Moore (1761), and Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726). After him are David Stirling (1915), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), Charles Lee (1731), Timothy Laurence (1955), Guy Simonds (1903), and Frederick Browning (1896).

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