Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (British Army officer)

General The Right Honourable
The Viscount Bridport
GCB DL
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, dressed in Windsor uniform. Portrait by Rudolf Swoboda (1859–1914), Royal Collection
Personal details
Born(1814-12-23)23 December 1814
Marylebone, London
Died4 June 1904(1904-06-04) (aged 89)
Royal Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Military service
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Branch/serviceBritish Army
RankGeneral
UnitRoyal Scots Fusiliers
Arms of the Viscount Bridport: 1st and 4th, Azure a fret Argent on a Chief Or three Crescents Sable (Hood); 2nd and 3rd, Or a Cross patonce Sable a Bend Gules surmounted of another engrailed of the field charged with three Bombs fired proper on a Chief undulated Argent waves of the Sea from which a Palm Tree issuant between a Disabled Ship on the dexter and a Battery in Ruins on the sinister all proper over all a Fess wavy Azure thereon inscribed the word "Trafalgar" Or (Nelson)
Monument and grave of Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, in the churchyard of Cricket Saint Thomas. The figure represents Saint Michael

General Alexander Nelson Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 4th Duke of Bronte, GCB, DL (23 December 1814 – 4 June 1904) was a British Army officer and courtier.