Arthur William Acland Hood R.N.
Arthur William Acland Hood R.N.
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Arthur William Acland Hood R.N. | Explanation |
Second son of Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd baronet (1793-1851) |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
14 July 1824 | | Born |
2 October 1855 | | Married Fanny Henrietta (died 29 Aug 1919), third daughter of Sir Charles Fitzroy Maclean, Bart. |
May 1871 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath) |
19 December 1885 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
September 1889 | | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) |
22 February 1892 | | Created Baron Hood of Avalon (peerage extinct onn his death) |
16 November 1901 | | Died (Wootton House, Glastonbury) |
Obituary in the Times newspaper |
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Date | Rank |
1836 | Entered Navy |
9 January 1846 | Lieutenant |
27 November 1854 | Commander |
26 February 1858 | Captain |
22 March 1876 | Rear-Admiral |
23 July 1880 | Vice-Admiral |
18 January 1886 | Admiral |
14 July 1899 | Retired Admiral |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
9 January 1846 | 1849 | Lieutenant in President, commanded by William Pearse Stanley, Cape of Good Hope |
19 January 1850 | 27 November 1854 | Lieutenant in Arethusa, commanded by Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds, in the Channel, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea during Russian War, and ashore in the Crimea before Sevastopol |
6 May 1856 | | Commander in Acorn, East Indies and China during the 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) |
2 December 1862 | 3 September 1866 | Captain in Pylades (from commissioning at Chatham until paying off at Chatham), North America and West Indies |
3 September 1866 | September 1869 | Captain in Excellent, gunnery ship, and Director of the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth |
1869 | 1874 | Director of naval ordnance |
10 June 1874 | | Captain in Monarch, Channel squardon |
11 January 1877 | 4 December 1879 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (2nd Naval Lord) |
10 December 1879 | 13 April 1882 | Commander-in-chief, Channel fleet |
1 July 1885 | 15 February 1886 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (1st Naval Lord) |
9 August 1886 | 11 July 1889 | Commissioner of the Admiralty (1st Naval Lord) |