In 1899, he entered Eugen Sandow's bodybuilding competition at Crystal Palace Park and won a gold medal.

He retained a life-long interest in winter sports and mountaineering, and in 1911, he competed in the Bott handicap on the Cresta Run at St. Moritz, Engadine in Switzerland.

He had always maintained a good level of physical fitness, however, in late 1929, he was diagnosed with progressive muscular atrophy and died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Whalley Range, Manchester.

[3] His father studied medicine at St Bartholomew's, London, and after he qualified, he was appointed surgeon to the Koninklijke West-Indische Maildienst (KWIM, the "Royal West India Mail Service").

[8] Hood was best man when Noel married Margery Josephine Williams on 28 June 1911 at St Stephen's, South Kensington.

[13] Around 1897, Clifford went to the United States to work on a ranch, and 1901, emigrated to New Zealand with Hood's elder brother, Williford.

[7] She was a medical doctor,[19] and on 27 October 1898, she married a general practitioner, Alfred Waugh Metcalfe, at St Mary's, Castlegate.

[21] She died on 12 January 1954 at Southmead Hospital after she fell and broke her thigh at the home of her daughter in Alveston, South Gloucestershire.

[24] He was a good all-round sportsperson,[24] and played cricket and rugby union at wing three-quarter back for the school.

[27] Although not as academically gifted as his siblings, in December 1893, he passed the College of Preceptors examination at St Martin's school in the first division of third class.

[28][29] On 6 October 1894, he returned to St Peter's to play in an Old Boys rugby union match against a mixed school team.

[36] The match was held on 2 October 1897 at Saracens' home ground in Park Road, Crouch End, North London, and he played at wing three‑quarter back for Hammersmith.

[40] In October 1900, Hood was selected to play for a British rugby union team in a match against France at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

However, it was Karl that was chosen to play at one of the four three-quarter back positions, along with Hood, Claud, and Herbert Nicol (another Aston Old Edwardian).

[42]: 163–164 [c] The French press reported that Britain seemed exhausted and lacked the ability to play safe but praised Herbert Loveitt for his composure and skill on the ball.

[53] — Match report in the Paris Exhibition of 1900 supplement that was published in the December 1900 volume of the Chronique de la Jeunesse.

The rugby matches were organised as a round-robin tournament where France, Germany, and Great Britain would play each other in turn.

However, the Great Britain versus Germany match did not go ahead as planned on 21 October 1900, as neither team was able to stay in Paris for the entire fifteen days of the competition.

[1] On 29 November 1899, he entered Sandow's bodybuilding competition at Crystal Palace Park and won a gold medal in a field of eighty-two competitors from Middlesex.

[63] Mancio was a famed ice dancer who had won the Italian national cup many times with her dance partner Gino Voli.

[64] Landau, a South African, was recruited at the beginning of World War I by the British secret service, now known as MI6, to be a spy handler in the Netherlands.

[71] Hood had always maintained a good level of physical fitness, however, in late 1929,[24] he was diagnosed with progressive muscular atrophy (PMA).

[79]: 663  He died of hypostatic pneumonia on 23 September 1932 at Doriscourt Nursing Home, Upper Chorlton Road, Whalley Range, Manchester.

[79]: 661  An obituary appeared in the December 1932 issue of The Peterite, the magazine of his former school, and stated that "Hood was a very fine athlete and gymnast ... other sports at which he excelled were wrestling and skating, at both of which he won many trophies.