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Horace Hood
Rear Admiral Sir Horace Lambert Alexander Hood, KCB, DSO, MVO (2 October 1870 – 31 May 1916) was a British Royal Navy admiral of the First World War, whose lengthy and distinguished service saw him engaged in operations around the world, frequently participating in land campaigns as part of a shore brigade. His early death at the Battle of Jutland in the destruction of his flagship was met with mourning and accolades from across Britain.
Admiral Hood was a youthful, vigorous and active officer whose service in Africa won him the Distinguished Service Order and who was posthumously raised to a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in recognition of his courageous and ultimately fatal service in the Battle of Jutland, during which his ship was constantly engaged from its arrival at the action and caused fatal damage to a German light cruiser. He has been described as "the beau ideal of a naval officer, spirited in manner, lively of mind, enterprising, courageous, handsome, and youthful in appearance … His lineage was pure Royal Navy, at its most gallant".〔(Hood, Sir Horace Lambert Alexander ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', H. W. Richmond, Retrieved 18 November 2007〕
==Early career==
Horace Hood was descended from one of the most influential and experienced navy lines, being a great-great-grandson of Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, who won numerous actions against the French in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars. His father was Francis Wheler Hood, 4th Viscount Hood and his mother Edith Lydia Drummond Ward.〔(Hood, Rear-Admiral The Hon. Sir Horace Lambert A. ), ''Commonwealth War Graves Commission'', Retrieved 18 November 2007〕 Born in South Street, London, Hood joined the navy aged just 12, attending cadet training ship at Dartmouth in 1882. Graduating top of his class in September 1885, Hood joined as a midshipman and served on her for a year in the Mediterranean Squadron before joining . In 1887 he was attached to , a small cruiser which sailed for the Pacific Ocean. It was aboard her that Hood experienced the Samoan Hurricane in which ''Calliope'' was the only survivor of seven foreign warships in Apia Harbour.〔
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