Beresford's late opposition to HMS Hood

Did Beresford oppose HMS Hood?

Yes. He lived until 1919 and opposed Hood. The report of one of his last Admiralty papers opposing further capital ships is secondhand.

Lord Charles Beresford was born on 10 February 1846 and died in 1919 at seventy-three. He opposed HMS Hood and continued objecting to new capital ships near the end of his life. The claim about one of his last Admiralty papers is explicitly secondhand, and the correspondence was not examined directly. His preferred alternative remains unclear, especially since he also rejected submarines and other newer ship types.