The Right Honourable The Lord St Audries Bt PC |
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"1st Conservative Whip". Fuller-Acland-Hood as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, November 1906.
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Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 8 August 1902 – 4 December 1905 |
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Monarch | Edward VII |
Prime Minister | Arthur Balfour |
Preceded by | Sir William Walrond, Bt |
Succeeded by | George Whiteley |
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Born | 26 September 1853 |
Died | 4 June 1917 (aged 63) |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Hon. Mildred Eveleigh-de-Moleyns (d. 1949) |
Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries PC (26 September 1853 – 4 June 1917), known as Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bt, until 1911, was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) under Arthur Balfour from 1902 to 1905.
Fuller-Acland-Hood was the son of Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, 3rd Baronet, by his wife Isabel, daughter of Sir Peregrine Palmer-Fuller-Acland, 2nd Baronet. He was a descendant of Alexander Hood, uncle of Lord Hood and Lord Bridport. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1892. In 1905 he also succeeded his kinsman as 6th Baronet of Hartington Hall.
Fuller-Acland-Hood sat as Member of Parliament for Wellington, Somerset from 1892 until 1911. He was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under Lord Salisbury in 1900, a post he held until 1902, and then served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) under Arthur Balfour from August 1902 until 1905. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1904 and raised to the peerage as Baron St Audries, of St Audries in the County of Somerset, in 1911.
Lord St Audries married the Hon. Mildred Rose Evelyn, daughter of Dayrolles Blakeney Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, in 1888. They had two sons and two daughters. He died in June 1917, aged 63, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Alexander. Lady St Audries died in October 1949.