Horatio Nelson

RS published in two volumes what became a classic biography, The Life of Nelson.

In their love lives each narrowly avoids disaster but only Vista is destined for happiness. Maggy takes as her model Emma Hamilton , the poor girl who became Nelson 's mistress, and dreams of a...

The play takes as its subject Admiral Horatio Nelson , who is the victim of a murderous attack in the port of Dover by a Royal Navy captain (who has been suborned into the employ...

They fled from Naples, capital of the kingdom of Naples and Sicily or the Two Sicilies, at about the same time as its king. The royal family (Ferdinand and Maria Carolina ) escaped from...

This makes a very different appearance from her former novels. Published by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge in their series Routledge's Cheap Literature at eighteen pence, it sports a paper-on-board cover with an illustration of a...

EB published at Norwich an ode on Nelson 's death at the battle of Trafalgar.

ES took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904, after an absence from London for family reasons had interrupted her career as a freelance teacher. She had been a desultory journalist already...

WB entertained Nelson and Sir William and Lady Hamilton in fantastic splendour at Fonthill.

During ECK 's stay on the Foudroyant, Nelson 's flagship, in 1800, she began a sketchbook which contains thirty-seven watercolours. It is inscribed: This book was commenced at Palermo in Sicily, 1800. Finished at Windsor, 1806.

As her mother had wished, once back in England ECK placed herself under the protection of powerful friends made abroad: Sir William Hamilton (British Ambassador to the court of the Two Sicilies), his wife Emma, Lady Hamilton

The rumours continued to plague all those concerned after the Hamiltons and Nelson returned to England (by which time, in fact, Emma Hamilton was pregnant by Nelson ). ECK mentions dining with the foursome...

Wherever she went on her first European trip she had access to exclusive circles of society. She met Nelson and his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton , the writer Antoine de Rivarol , Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte

On their previous visit to Naples in 1785, the Knights had met Sir William Hamilton , the British ambassador there, as well as the rulers, Ferdinand and Maria Carolina . On their return to Naples...

Mary Grant married Edwin Horatio Seacole (a godson of Lord Nelson ), who died in 1844.

Francis Baily was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from...