The discussion distinguishes Samuel Hood at the Saintes from his descendant Horace Hood, who died at Jutland aboard HMS Invincible. Horace Hood had already performed strongly with the Dover Patrol and was working to improve the Third Battlecruiser Squadron. The resulting judgment places him among the Royal Navy's best admirals of the period and ahead of David Beatty as a choice to command the battlecruiser force. Had Hood survived until Beatty moved to command the Grand Fleet, he might plausibly have received that appointment.
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Why Hood was preferable to Beatty
A discussion of the Hood family becomes an assessment of Rear Admiral Horace Hood as a stronger prospective battlecruiser commander than David Beatty.