The 1st Baronet was the grandson of Alexander Hood (c.1675–1756) of Mosterton in Dorset (uncle of
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood and
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport) by his wife, Ann Way. He was succeeded according to the
special remainder by his nephew, the 2nd Baronet, who represented
Somerset West in the
House of Commons. His son, the 3rd Baronet, in 1849 married Isabel Harriet Fuller-Palmer-Acland, daughter and heiress of Sir Peregrine Fuller-Palmer-Acland, 2nd Baronet (d. 1871), of Fairfield in Somerset, and assumed by royal licence the additional surnames of Fuller and Acland. Sir Peregrine Fuller-Palmer-Acland bought the estate of St Audries in the parish of
West Quantoxhead, West Somerset, for his daughter Isabel and her husband. The 3rd Baronet later sat as a
Member of Parliament for Somerset West. His son, the 4th Baronet, succeeded in 1905 to the
Bateman Baronetcy, of Hartington Hall, according to a special remainder in the letters patent. Fuller-Acland-Hood also represented
Wellington, Somerset, in Parliament and held minor office from 1902 to 1905 in the
Conservative government of
Arthur Balfour. On 22 January 1911, he was created
Baron St Audries, of St Audries in the County of Somerset, in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom. His son was Alexander Peregrine, the 2nd Baron, who in 1925 sold the estate of St Audries, though not the lordship of the manor, to W. A. Towler of Littleport in Cambridgeshire. ==Hood, later Fuller-Acland-Hood baronets, of Tidlake, Surrey (1809)==