Viscount Bridport

Viscountcy of Bridport
Quarterly: 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).
Creation date6 July 1868
CreationSecond
Created byQueen Victoria
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderAlexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
Present holderAlexander Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport
Heir apparentThe Hon. Peregrine Alexander Nelson Hood
Heir presumptiveThe Hon. Anthony Nelson Hood
StatusExtant
MottoSTEADY
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 1795 portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott.
Arms of Hood, Viscount Bridport: Azure, a fret argent on a chief or three crescents sable.[1]
Arms of William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, 2nd Duke of Bronte, being the augmented arms of his younger brother Admiral Horatio Nelson further augmented with a fess wavy azure thereon inscribed the word "Trafalgar" or. Today quartered by Hood, Viscount Bridport, descendants of the 1st Earl's daughter, the 3rd Duchess of Bronte.[1]

Viscount Bridport is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation became extinct in 1814, while the second creation is extant.

  1. ^ a b Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p. 174 (Viscount Bridport).