Horatio Nelson

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...

While in Naples in 1798, ECK composed The Battle of the Nile: a Pindarick Ode to celebrate a famous victory of Nelson 's. This she published in Vienna in the year 1800. This...

An album centred on Nelson, the Hamiltons, and the Knights, containing several poems by ECK in both print and manuscript, was sold at auction in the early 1990s and broken up. Other poems severed from...

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.

ECK relates her experiences at the English and at various European courts, and includes sketches and anecdotes of famous people she knew, including those of an earlier generation like Samuel Johnson and Frances Reynolds ...

Collingwood, after a distinguished naval career which famously included taking over commnd of the British fleet when Nelson was killed at Trafalgar, died at sea on 7 March 1810. His body landed at Greenwich...

The volume includes poems of natural description, of meditation, and of political comment. FON expresses delight at the election victory on 9 August 1802 (in John Wilkes's old constituency of Middlesex) of Sir Francis Burdett

CO 's biography of Britain's national naval hero, Nelson (probably her best-known achievement), appeared in the USA the year before its English publication, likely on account of wartime paper shortages.

CO 's work on a series of leaders from the time of the Napoleonic wars resulted in an invitation to lecture to the Royal Society of Literature about reading the writings of Nelson , Collingwood

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

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...

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

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

Her travel journal (and the excerpt given in The Times) records trenchant criticisms of Horatio Nelson and particularly of his mistress, Emma, Lady Hamilton , who failed in several respects to live up to...