Education
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.
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 Limited. 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.
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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. 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.
Hood was known as a generous benefactor to the area he represented in parliament.
He donated a recreation ground at Raynes Park to Merton and Morden Urban District Council and playing fields and woodland in South Wimbledon to the Borough of Wimbledon. Following his death they were named Sir Joseph Hood Memorial Playing Fields, and Sir Joseph Hood Memorial Wood.
Sir Joseph and Lady Hood were granted the freedom of the borough of Wimbledon in 1924. In 1930 he was elected mayor of Wimbledon by the borough council, an office he held until his death at his Wimbledon home after a short illness in January 1931.
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At the 1918 general election he was elected as Coalition Conservative member of parliament for Wimbledon.