Baron Hood of Avalon, in the County of Somerset, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1892 for the former First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Arthur Hood. The title became extinct on his death. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... The First Sea Lord is the professional head of the British Royal Navy. ...
"heed." Some form of hood as a loose covering easily drawn on or off the head has formed a natural part of outdoor costume both for men and women at all times and in all quarters of the globe where climatic conditions called for it.
In the middle ages and later both men and women are found wearing it, but with men it tended to be superseded by the hat before it became merely an occasional and additional head-covering in time of bad weather or in particularly rigorous climates.
For illustrations and examples of the hood as worn by men and women in medieval and later times see the article Costume; for the hood or cowl as part of the dress of a religious see Cowl, and as forming a distinctive mark of degree in academic costume see Robes.
Hood was the younger son of Sir Alexander Hood of St Andries, Somerset, 2nd baronet.
His grandfather, Captain Alexander Hood, was killed in action during the French Revolutionary Wars; he fell whilst in command of HMS Mars, in action with the French 74-gun ship Hercule on April 21, 1798.
As gunnery lieutenant Hood continued in the President till 1849; and in the following year was appointed to the frigate Arethusa, then commissioned for the Mediterranean by Captain William Symonds, afterwards the well-known Admiral of the Fleet.
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