HOO— HOOD. 253 Aug. 1445, and was a: 2 June 1417 (*) BARON OP HOO, co. Bedford, AND OF HASTINGS, co Sussex, with rem. to his heirs male ('■), being sum. to Pari, by writs directed ' Thomas IIoo, Chl'r," from 2 Jan. (1448/9), 27 Hen. VI. to 20 Jan. (1452/3), 31 Hen. VI. He m, firstly, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Nicholas Wichingham. He hi. secondly, in or before 1416, Eleanor, 1st da. of Lionel (Wkllks), Loud Welles, by his first wife, Cecelia, da. of Sir Robert Watbbton. He d. s.p.m. 13 Feb. (1454/5), 33 Hen. VI., when the Barony became extinct ( c ). In'/, post mortem, 33 Hen. VI. Will dat. the day before death ('<) pr. 7 Dec. 1455. His widow m. James Lawrence, and thirdly, Hugh Hastings. HOOKE OF HOOKE'S CASTLE. Nathaniel Hookb, 3rd s. of John H., of Drogheda, mer- chant, 6. 1661, at Corballis, co. Meath, fought at the Boyne on behalf of King James II., by whom he was subsequently employed on several missions, being well known as " Col. Hnoke." He became 3 March 170S, a Brigadier in the French service. He was cr. by the titular King, James III. ( e ), (see " Jaco- bite Peerages," vol. i., p. 59, note " b," sub. " Albemarle,") by letters patent, dat. at St. Germain en Laye, 7 Feb. 1709, 8 Jac. III., Bauon Houkk of Hookr's Casti.k, co. Wexford [[.] He m. in 1704, Eleanor Susan MacCauthy- Kkauh. He <l. 25 Oct, 173S, aged 75, leaving one son, James Nathaniel Hooke, b. 1705 ; d. 1744. HOOD OF CATHERIXGTOX and HOOD OF WHITLEY. Barony [I.] j. Samuel Hdod, of Catherington, Hants, 1st s. ( f ) of L 1732. the Rev. S amuel Hood, of Butley, Somerset, and of Thorncombe, _ rn R l Devon, Preb. of Wells and Vicar of Butley, by Mary, da. of , 1 i-qP ' '■'Richard Hoskins, of Beaminster, Dorset, was b. 12 Dec. 1724, and ' J ' bap.'l Jan. following at Butley afsd, entered the Navy in 1740, becorn- Viscountcy ™8 l'°st Capt. 1756; Rear Admiral of the Blue ; 1780 and finally, [G.B.] 1S05, Admiral of the Red. From 1757 (being then Capt.), to 1759 T 1 790 ' le was em P' c, y ei ' 011 ' ue blockade of the French coast, capturing (21 Feb. 1 759) a French frigate (the Bellona), of 32 guns, and from 1763 to 1707 was in command in America. From 177S to 17S0 he was Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth, being cr. a Baronet, as of " Catherington, co. Southampton," 19 May 1778, on the occasion of the King's visit. Two years subsequently he was made Rear Admiral, aud having distinguished himself in the action (12 Aug. 1782) of Lord Rodney agaiust the French fleet under La Grasse. was cr, an Irish peer (2 Sep. 17S2). as BAUON HOOD OF CATHERINGTON [I.] He was M.P. for Westminster, 1784-SS ; for Reigate 1789-90, aud for Westminster (again) 1790-96. Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, 1786 ; one of the Lords of the Admiralty, 17SS-95 ; Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean 1793-94, where he directed the (victorious) attack on Toulon, and the capture of Corsica. This completed his naval career, his wife obtaining a Barony [G.B.] in 1795, aud he himself being cr. 1 June ( :l ) This was one of the 16 Baronies cr. by patent before the time of Henry VIII See vol. iii., p. 31, note " e," sub. >' Daubeny," for a list of these. (") This is one of five similar English creations in which the words " of the body " are omitted. See vol. iii., p. 107, note " c," sub. "Devon." (c) He left a brother (of the half blood), Thomas Hoo (who d. s.p. 28 Oct. 1486) and four daughters and coheirs, of whom the eldest (the only child by the first wife) Anne, was then aged 30, and wife of Geoffrey Boleyn (Lord Mayor of London, 1457), being great grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort to Henry VIII. ( d ) Test, vet., but see a more accurate copv in the Sussex Arch. Coll. viii., p. 119. («) Ex inform Rev. W. J. Macray, the Editor (for the Roxburghe Club, 1870-71), of " JJoolx's Correspondence, 1703-07 ") who, subsequently, discovered a copy of this patent among Sir Thomas Phillipps'e MSS. No. 15,339. ( f ) The second son, Alexander Hood, was er. Baron Bridport [I.], 1794, with ft spec, ran., and was cr. in 1800 Viscount Bridport.
