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The site of the rectory in Burnham Thorpe where Nelson was born in 1758. Horatio Nelson was born on 29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758, at a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England; the sixth of eleven children of the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife, Catherine Suckling. [1]
England's Pride and Glory, an 1894 painting by Thomas Davidson.A young naval cadet is shown Lemuel Francis Abbott's portrait of Nelson to inspire him.. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was one of the leading British flag officers in the Royal Navy of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, responsible for several ...
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, was given a state funeral in London on 9 January 1806. It was the first to be held at St Paul's Cathedral and was the grandest of any non-royal person to that date.
The Nelson Monument on Glasgow Green was erected 1806–1807, [1] [2] and described as the first civic monument in the UK to Nelson's victories including Trafalgar. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A number of monuments and memorials were constructed across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to honour his memory.
An antique photograph of a portrait of Horatia Ward (née Nelson) from the Style/Ward Family collection. Horatia Nelson, christened as Horatia Nelson Thompson [1] (29 January 1801 – 6 March 1881), was the illegitimate daughter of Emma, Lady Hamilton, and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.
It was created on 20 November 1805 for the Rev. William Nelson, 2nd Baron Nelson, one month after the death of his younger brother Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, the famous naval hero of the Napoleonic Wars and victor of the Battle of Trafalgar of 21 October 1805 (during which he was killed in action).
The Death of Nelson may refer to any of the following paintings depicting the death of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson: The Death of Nelson (West painting), an 1806 work by Benjamin West; The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805, an 1807 work by Arthur William Devis; The Death of Nelson (Maclise painting), an 1859–64 work by Daniel Maclise
Nelson's Column (French: colonne Nelson) is a monument, designed by Scottish architect Robert Mitchell [1] and erected in 1809 in Place Jacques-Cartier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which is dedicated to the memory of Admiral Horatio Nelson, following his death at the Battle of Trafalgar.