Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries

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Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries |PC (26 September 1853 – 4 June 1917) was a British Conservative Party politician.

St Audries was the son of Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Isabel, daughter of Sir Peregrine Palmer Palmer-Fuller-Acland. The Member of Parliament for Wellington, Somerset from 1892 until 1911, he was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1900 to 1902 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) from 1902 until 1905. He was sworn a |Privy Counsellor in 1904. In 1911, he was ennobled as Baron St Audries, of St Audries in the County of Somerset.

Lord St Audries married the Hon. Mildred Rose Evelyn, daughter of Dayrolles Blakeney Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, in 1888. He died in June 1917, aged 63, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Alexander.

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• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
• www.thepeerage.com

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Isaac Elton	Member of Parliament for Wellington, Somerset 1892–1911	Succeeded by Dennis Fortescue Boles
Political offices
Preceded by Ailwyn Fellowes	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1900–1902	Succeeded by The Lord Wolverton
Preceded by Sir William Walrond, Bt	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1902–1905	Succeeded by George Whiteley
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Alexander Acland-Hood	Baronet (of St Audries) 1892–1917	Succeeded by Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Baron St Audries 1911–1917	Succeeded by Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood