HOOD, Charles (son of William Hood, an ironmaster 18 Earl st. Blackfriars). b. 1805; ironmaster with his brother in London; made researches into chemistry of combustion of coal, silver medal of Soc. of Arts; F.R.S. 7 Dec. 1843; F.R.A.S.; F.S.S.; chairman of British home for incurables 1861–6; author of A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water, to which are added Remarks on ventilation 1837, 5 ed. 1879. d. 10 Leinster gardens, Bayswater, London 10 Dec. 1889.
HOOD, Rev. Edwin Paxton (son of a sailor in the navy). b. at house of bishop Porteous 34 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 24 Oct. 1820; began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840; Congregational minister at North Nibley, Gloucs. 1852–7, at Offord road, Islington 1857–62 and 1873, at Queen sq. church, Brighton 1862–73, at Cavendish st. Manchester 1877 to 1880, at Falcon sq. Aldersgate st. London 1882 to death; editor of the Eclectic and Congregational Review, of the Argonaut and The Preacher’s Lantern; author of Old England 1851; William Wordsworth, a biography 1856; The Peerage of Poverty 1 series 1859, 3 ed. 1859, 2 series 1861, 5 ed. 1870 and 50 other books. d. suddenly at Paris 12 June 1885. Congregational Year-Book (1886) 178–82.
HOOD, Francis Grosvenor (2 son of lieut. col. Francis Wheler Rood, killed in action 2 March 1814). b. 4 March 1809; ensign grenadier guards 30 April 1827, captain 31 Dec. 1841, major of 3 battalion 20 June 1854 to death; leading his battalion gallantly contributed to defeat of the enemy at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. 1854; killed in the trenches before Sebastopol 18 Oct. 1854. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. iii 220–2, 239 et seq. iv 442.
HOOD, Peter. b. Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’ preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of Practical observations on diseases fatal to children 1845; The successful treatment of scarlet fever 1857; A treatise on gout, rheumatism and the allied affections 1871, 3 ed. 1885. d. Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p. 699.
HOOD, Rev. Samuel. b. Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death; D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. d. Rothesay 30 May 1872. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 392.
HOOD, Samuel. b. Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of Practical treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts, guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania 1847; A practical treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania 1847; A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 1844. d. Philadelphia 1875.
HOOD, Thomas (only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853; edited the Liskeard Gazette 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11 July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called Saturday Night 1862; edited Fun, May 1865 to death; Tom Hood’s Comic Annual first issued 1867; author of Captain Master’s children 3 vols. 1865; A golden heart 3 vols. 1868; Rules of rhyme, a guide to English versification 1869 and many other books. d. Gloucester cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. Poems by Thomas Hood the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling Broderip 1877; Cartoon portraits (1873) 64–65, portrait; Illust. sporting news, iv, 357 (1865), portrait.
HOOD, Thomas H. Cockburn. b. 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to 1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of The Rutherfords of that ilk 188-; The house of Cockburn, with anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part, Edin. 1888, and of many scientific papers. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1889. The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p. 228.
HOOD, Sir William Charles (only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89). b. South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863; treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death; lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor castle 7 July 1868. d. Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany. 1870.
HOOF, William. b. 1788; a railway contractor. d. Madeley house, Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a million.