Social Victorians/People/Hood

Also Known As

• Family name: Hood
• Viscount Hood of Whitley (Great Britain peerage, created 1796)
  • Francis Wheler Hood, 4th Viscount (8 May 1846 – 27 April 1907)
  • Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood, 5th Viscount (27 April 1907 – 26 Apr 1933)
• Viscountess Hood
  • Edith Lydia Drummond Ward Hood (18 July 1865 – 28 February 1911)
  • Jane Primrose Stapleton-Cotton Hood (28 February 1911 – 5 March 1919)
• Dowager Viscountess Hood
  • Edith Lydia Drummond Ward Hood (28 February 1911 – 9 March 1911)
• Related to the families of the Viscounts Bridport, who are also Hoods

Timeline

1865 July 18, Francis Wheler Hood and Edith Lydia Drummond Ward married.

1897 July 2, Friday, the Hon. G. Hood (#83 in the list of people present) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1907 April 27, Francis Wheler Hood, 4th Viscount Hood of Whitley died.

1911 February 28, Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood and Primrose Stapleton-Cotton married.

1919 March 5, Primrose Stapleton-Cotton Hood died.

1928 June 2, Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood and Marguerite Jenny Hood married.

Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood, 5th Viscount Hood as Sir Galahad. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, the Hon. G. Hood — Grosvenor Hood, later 5th Viscount Hood of Whitley — attended the ball dressed as a Knight of the Round Table, or specifically as Sir Galahad. Along with the other knights, he wore a

• "white satin tabard, royal blue cloak embroidered in scarlet and gold over chain mail armour, with helmet, spurs, and two-handed sword complete, each with his own crest embroidered on his tabard."
• "chain armour, white tabards richly broidered, crested helmets, and velvet mantles, [with] Lord Ashburton, Earl Rodney, Earl Bathurst, [and] Sir Lister Kaye."

Lafayette's portrait of "Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood, 5th Viscount Hood as Sir Galahad" in costume is photogravure #150 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Hon. Grosvenor Hood as Sir Galahad."

The heraldic-looking bird on Hood's tabard does not appear to be part of the Arms of his title.

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Family

• Francis Wheler Hood, 4th Viscount Hood of Whitley (4 July 1838 – 27 April 1907)
• Edith Lydia Drummond Ward (– 9 March 1911)

1. Hon. Mabel Edith Hood (26 May 1866 – 18 January 1904)
2. Grosvenor Arthur Frederick Hood (6 June 1867 – 2 June 1868)
3. Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood, 5th Viscount Hood of Whitley (13 November 1868 – 26 April 1933)
4. Horace Lambert Alexander Hood (2 October 1870 – 31 May 1916)
5. Neville Albert Hood (4 October 1872 – 24 January 1948)
6. Alma Margarite Hood (12 August 1875 – 27 February 1877)
7. Dorothy Violet Hood (4 September 1877 – 28 January 1965)
8. Francis George Hood (28 March 1880 – 11 August 1949)

• Grosvenor Arthur Alexander Hood, 5th Viscount Hood of Whitley (13 November 1868 – 26 April 1933)
• Primrose (Jane Primrose) Stapleton-Cotton Hood (19 April 1882 – 5 March 1919)
• Marguerite Jenny Hood (20 May 1881 – 10 May 1966)

Other Hoods at Social Events Hosted by the Prince of Wales or in His Honor

• The Hon. Alexander Hood (might be Hon. Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, of Viscount Bridport? or Horace Lambert Alexander Hood?)
• Admiral Sir Arthur and Lady Hood and Miss Hood is a different, though not unrelated, family: Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st and last Baron Hood of Avalon.
• The Hon. Rosa Hood accompanied Viscount and Viscountess Bridport to an event.
• The family name for the Viscount Bridport title was Hood also.

Notes and Questions

1. According to the Morning Post and the Gentlewoman, the Knights of the Round Table were George, Baron Rodney; Hon. R. Grosvenor; Seymour Henry Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst; and Hon. Grosvenor Hood. According to the Daily News, the Knights of the Table Round were "Lord Ashburton, Lord Rodney, Lord Bathurst, Lord Ampthill, and Lord Beauchamp." George, Baron Rodney was 40 at the time of the ball; Seymour Henry Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst was nearly 33; Hon. Grosvenor Hood was 29;  Lord Francis Ashburton was nearly 31; Lord Ampthill was 28; Lord Beauchamp was 25.