Arthur Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport

Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport CB (15 December 1839 – 28 March 1924) of Guernsey, Channel Islands, was a British Army officer.

He was the son and heir of General Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814-1904), 4th Duke of Bronte in Sicily, of Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, by his wife Lady Mary Penelope Hill (d.1884), a daughter of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire.

He succeeded to his father's English titles in 1904, aged 65, but his father bequeathed the Sicilian title Duke of Bronte and its accompanying large estate, to his younger son Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte (1854–1937), who died unmarried.

On 4 April 1872 he married Lady Maria Georgiana Julia Fox-Strangways, a daughter of Hon.

By his wife he had issue including: He died on 8 Mar 1924 at Surprise Cottage, Route De Passeur, in the parish of Vale, Guernsey, near L'Ancresse Beach and golf club, Channel Islands, and was buried at Vale Parish Church, St Michel du Valle.

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Lt. Hon. Maurice Henry Nelson Hood (1891-1915), son and heir apparent of the 2nd Viscount, killed aged 34 in action at Gallipoli