The title of Viscount Bridport was created twice in British history. It was first created in 1800 in the Peerage of Great Britain for Alexander Hood, 1st Baron Bridport, already Baron Bridport in both the Peerage of Ireland (1794) and the Peerage of Great Britain (1796). This Viscountcy and the British barony became extinct with his death in 1814, but the Irish barony passed on, and the 3rd Baron Bridport was again created Viscount Bridport in 1868.

Barons Bridport (1794)

• Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726_1814)
• Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (1788-1868)
• Alexander Nelson Hood, 3rd Baron Bridport (1814_1904) (became Viscount in 1868)

Viscounts Bridport (1868)

• Alexander Nelson Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814_1904)
• Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood, 2nd Viscount Bridport (1839-1924)
• Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson Hood, 3rd Viscount Bridport (1911-1969)
• Alexander Nelson Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport (b. 1948)