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BARON ARTHUR See also: English See also: admiral, See also: born on the 14th of See also: July 1824, was the younger son of See also: Sir See also: Alexander
See also: Hood of St Andries, See also: Somerset, 2nd See also: baronet, and See also: grandson of Captain Alexander Hood, R.N., who, when in command of the " See also: Mars," See also: fell in See also: action with the French 74-See also: gun See also: ship " Hercule," 21st of See also: April 1798
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At the age of twelve Hood entered the See also: navy, and whilst still a boy saw active service on the See also: north See also: coast of See also: Spain, and afterwards on the coast of See also: Syria
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After passing through the established course of gunnery on See also: board the " Excellent " in 1844-1845, he went out to the Cape of See also: Good Hope as gunnery mate of the " President," the See also: flagship of See also: Rear-Admiral Dacres, by whom, on the 9th of See also: January 1846, he was promoted to be See also: lieutenant
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As gunnery lieutenant he continued in the " President " till 1849; and in the following See also: year he was appointed to the " See also: Arethusa " See also: frigate, then commissioned for the Mediterranean by Captain See also: Symonds, afterwards the well-known admiral of the See also: fleet
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The outbreak of the See also: Russian war made the commission a very long one; and on the 27th of See also: November 18 J4 Hood was promoted to be See also: commander in recognition of his service with the See also: naval brigade before Sebastopol
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In 18J5 he married Fanny Henrietta, daughter of Sir C
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In 1856 he commissioned the " See also: Acorn " brig for the See also: China station, and arrived in See also: time to take See also: part in the destruction of the junks in Fatshan creek on the 1st of See also: June 1857, and in the capture of See also: Canton in the following See also: December, for which,
in See also: February 1858, he received a See also: post-captain's commission
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From 1862 to 1866 he commanded. the " Pylades " on the
North See also: American station, and was then appointed to the command of the " Excellent " and the See also: government of the Royal Naval See also: College at Portsmouth
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This was essentially a gunnery See also: appointment, and on the expiration of three years Hood was made Director of Naval Ordnance
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He was thoroughly acquainted with the routine See also: work of the office and the established armament of the navy, but he had not the power of adapting himself to the changes which were being called for, and still less of initiating them; so that during his See also: period of office the armament of the See also: ships remained sadly behind the general advance
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In June 1874 he was appointed to the command of the " Monarch " in the Channel Fleet, from which he was relieved in See also: March 1876 by his promotion to
See also: flag See also: rank
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From 1877 to 1879 he was a junior See also: lord of the See also: Admiralty, and from 188o to 1882 he commanded the Channel Fleet, becoming See also: vice-admiral on 23rd July 1880
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In June 1885 he was appointed first See also: sea lord of the Admiralty
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The intense conservatism of his character, however, and his antagonistic attitude towards every change, regardless of whether it was necessary or not, had much to do with the alarming See also: state of the navy towards 1889
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In that year, on attaining the age of sixty-five, he was placed on the retired See also: list and resigned his post at the Admiralty-
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After two years of continued See also: ill-See also: health, he died on the 15th of November 1901, and was buried at Butleigh on the 23rd
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He had been promoted to the rank of admiral on the 18th of January 1886; was made K.C.B. in December 1885; G.C.B. in See also: September 1889; and in February 1892 was raised to the See also: peerage as Lord Hood of Avalon, but on his See also: death the title became See also: extinct
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