Alexander Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport

Alexander Nelson Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport, 7th Duke of Bronté (born 17 March 1948), known as Alex Bridport, is a British-born investment banker.

Education

Hood is the son of Rowland Hood, 3rd Viscount Bridport and Sheila Jeanne Agatha van Meurs. He was educated at Eton College and the Sorbonne. He is a descendant of William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson, elder brother of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté. He succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1969.

Career

After the Sorbonne, Bridport joined the investment company Kleinwort Benson based in London, before going on to Chase Manhattan Bank and with it moved to Geneva in 1985 to be General Manager of Investment Banking. He was appointed Managing Director of Shearson Lehman Brothers, New York, in 1988. He set up Bridport & Cie S.A. with Thomas Bartholdi in 1991; they both remain managing partners.

Family

Lord Bridport married Linda Jacqueline Paravicini on 5 January 1972. They had a son, the Honourable Peregrine Alexander Nelson Hood (b. 1974). Lord and Lady Bridport were divorced in 1979. Lady Bridport married, secondly, Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk.

Lord Bridport married secondly Nina Lincoln (widow of Formula 1 Driver Jochen Rindt) on 5 December 1979.^[1] They had a son, the Honourable Anthony Nelson Hood (b. 1983), and were divorced in 1999.

The Heir Presumptive is the present holder's eldest son: the Hon. Peregrine Alexander Nelson Hood (b. 1974) who is married to Iranian-American Serena Nikkhah (b. 1983); she is currently the Executive Fashion Editor at British Vogue. They married at the church of St John the Baptist, Charlton Park, Malmesbury on 8 June 2013: guests included Princess Michael of Kent, Tom Parker Bowles, and Pippa Middleton.^[2]

References

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Bridport
www.bridport.ch Profile and picture

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson Hood	Viscount Bridport 1969–present	Incumbent
Titles of nobility
Preceded by Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson Hood	Duke of Bronté Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1969–present	Succeeded by Incumbent

British viscounts*

In the peerages of England, Scotland and Great Britain

Hereford Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird Bolingbroke & St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood

In the peerage of Ireland *(pre-1801)*

Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene & Ferrard Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Haberton Hawarden

In the peerages of United Kingdom & Ireland (post-1801)

*Current substantive viscounts, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest