The Viscount Hood | |
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Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
as a hereditary peer 2 October 1999 –11 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | The 7th Viscount Hood |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished [a] |
Personal details | |
Born | Henry Lyttelton Alexander Hood 16 March 1958 |
Occupation | Peer,solicitor |
Henry Lyttelton Alexander Hood,8th Viscount Hood (born 16 March 1958 [1] ),is a British peer and solicitor. He succeeded to the viscountcy on 2 October 1999,after the death of his father,Alexander Hood,7th Viscount Hood. [1]
His mother,Diana Maud Lyttelton (1920–2008),was the second daughter of George Lyttelton of the Lyttelton family (the Viscounts Cobham),thus making Lord Hood a nephew of noted entertainer Humphrey Lyttelton. [2] Not long after succeeding his father to the title,he lost his seat in the House of Lords due to the House of Lords Act 1999 which removed all but 92 hereditary peers. He most recently stood as a crossbencher in the 2018 by-election following the retirement of the Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and came sixth.
Lord Hood married Flora Susan Casement (b. 1959) in 1991. The Viscountess is a maternal cousin of actor Hugh Grant. The couple have three sons and two daughters. [2]
Lord Hood was educated at Eton College and obtained a Master of Arts degree at the University of Edinburgh before gaining law qualifications at the College of Law in 1987. [3] He is a well-established practising solicitor specialising in family law and mediation,and heads the Family Law department at Hunters in the City of London. [4] [5]
In August 2024,he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the county of Dorset. [6]
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