biography
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Hood (of Whitley), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount
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| lived:
| (1724–1816)
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| biography:
| British admiral, born in Thorncombe, Dorset, S England, UK. He joined the navy in 1741, and fought during the American Revolution, when he defeated the French in the West Indies (1782), for which he was made a baron in the Irish peerage. In 1784 he became an MP, and in 1788 a Lord of the Admiralty. In 1793, he directed the occupation of Toulon and the operations in the Gulf of Lyon. He was created a viscount in 1796. |
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