HOOD, TOM (1835-1874), English humorist, son of the poet Thomas Hood, was born at Lake House, Wanstead, Essex. After some years of journalism and five years at the War Office he became, in 1865, editor of Fun. In 1867 he first issued Tom Hood's Comic Annual. He died on Nov. 20, 1874.
See a memoir by his sister, F. F. Broderip, prefixed to his Poems (1877).