Sir Joseph Hood, 1st Baronet

Sir Joseph Hood, 1st Baronet, (31 March 1863 – 10 January 1931) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.

Born in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Hood was educated at the local grammar school. He subsequently studied law, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1890, practicing in Liverpool.

In 1902 he was employed as solicitor to act for Imperial Tobacco Company and American Tobacco Company in their formation of the joint venture British-American Tobacco Company Ltd. He was appointed a director of the three companies, and was one of the deputy-chairman of British American Tobacco. He resigned from these positions in 1921. In 1900 he married Katherine Kenny of County Wexford, and the couple had three daughters. She died in 1913. His second marriage was to Marie Robinson of Dublin, with whom he had two sons.

During World War I he served on two committees of the Board of Trade and acted as an assistant controller at the Ministry of Information.

At the 1918 general election he was elected as Coalition Conservative member of parliament for Wimbledon. He held the seat at the next two general elections, and in 1922 was created a baronet "of Wimbledon in the County of Surrey". He retired from the Commons at the 1924 general election.

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