Hood, Thomas, poet and humourist, born in London; gave up business and engraving, to which he first applied himself, for letters, and commencing as a journalist, immortalised himself by the “Song of the Shirt” and his “Dream of Eugene Aram”; edited the “Comic Annual,” and wrote “Whims and Oddities,” in all of which he displayed both wit and pathos (1798‒1845).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hood, Samuel, Viscount * Hooghly