Alexander Nelson Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport, 7th Duke of Bronte[a] (born 17 March 1948), known as Alex Bridport, is a British
investment banker, resident in
Geneva, Switzerland.[1]
He grew up in the
Castello di Maniace,
Sicily, and was educated at
Eton College and the
Sorbonne. He joined
Kleinwort Bensonmerchant bank in London, before going on to
Chase Manhattan Bank which sent him to Geneva in 1985 to be General Manager of Investment Banking. He was appointed managing director of
Shearson Lehman Brothers, New York, in 1988. In 1991 he set up Bridport & Cie S.A. in
Geneva, Switzerland, with Thomas Bartholdi, and both remain managing partners, together with Count Luca Padulli.[4] In 1981, facing an on-going turbulent political situation in Italy and the prospect of further demands for land reform from an historically inimical faction of the local population, he sold his paternal estate of the
Duchy of Bronte and his seat within it, the Castello di Maniace, granted to Admiral Nelson in 1799 by the King of the Two Sicilies.[5]
Secondly, on 5 December 1979, he married
Nina Lincoln (widow of Formula 1 racing driver
Jochen Rindt[9]) from whom he was divorced in 1999, having had a further son:
Alexander Nelson Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport, 7th Duke of Bronte[a] (born 17 March 1948), known as Alex Bridport, is a British
investment banker, resident in
Geneva, Switzerland.[1]
He grew up in the
Castello di Maniace,
Sicily, and was educated at
Eton College and the
Sorbonne. He joined
Kleinwort Bensonmerchant bank in London, before going on to
Chase Manhattan Bank which sent him to Geneva in 1985 to be General Manager of Investment Banking. He was appointed managing director of
Shearson Lehman Brothers, New York, in 1988. In 1991 he set up Bridport & Cie S.A. in
Geneva, Switzerland, with Thomas Bartholdi, and both remain managing partners, together with Count Luca Padulli.[4] In 1981, facing an on-going turbulent political situation in Italy and the prospect of further demands for land reform from an historically inimical faction of the local population, he sold his paternal estate of the
Duchy of Bronte and his seat within it, the Castello di Maniace, granted to Admiral Nelson in 1799 by the King of the Two Sicilies.[5]
Secondly, on 5 December 1979, he married
Nina Lincoln (widow of Formula 1 racing driver
Jochen Rindt[9]) from whom he was divorced in 1999, having had a further son: