HOOD, HORACE LAMBERT ALEXANDER (187o 1916), British naval officer, was born in London on Oct. 2, 187o, the third son of the 4th viscount Hood and a lineal descendant of the 1st viscount, Adml. Sir Samuel Hood (q.v.). He entered the navy in 1883, saw service on the Nile (1897-98), and in the Somaliland expedition (1903-4) . After serving a year as naval attaché at Washington, he commanded the naval college at Os borne from Oct. 1910 to Jan. 1913. He commanded a squadron of battle cruisers in the battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), and went down on his flagship "Invincible." See J. S. Corbett (Official) History of the Great War. Naval operations (vol. iii., 1923) .