On 29th September 1758 Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson was born to Reverend Edmund Nelson [aged 36].
On 9th November 1786 [his brother] Reverend William Nelson 1st Earl Nelson [aged 29] and [his sister-in-law] Sarah Yonge Countess Nelson [aged 37] were married.
On 29th January 1801 [his illegitimate daughter] Horatia Nelson was born illegitimately to Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson [aged 42] and Amy Lyon aka Emma Hart Lady Hamilton [aged 35].
The London Gazette 15366. Whitehall, May 19, 1801. THE King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Right Honorable Horatio Baron Nelson [aged 42], Knight of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, and Vice-Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His. Majesty's Fleet, and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten, by the Name, Style, and Title of Viscount Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnlinm Thorpe, in the County of Norfolk.
The King has also been pleased to nominate and appoint Thomas Graves, Esq; Rear-Admiral of the White, to be one of the Knights Companions of the Most Honomble Order of the Bath.
The London Gazette 15393. Whitehall, August 4, 1801. The King has been pleased to grant the Dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britaintain and Ireland, to the Right Honorable Horatio Viscount Nelson [aged 42], Knight of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, and Vice-Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, (Duke of Bronti in Sicily, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, and of the Imperial Order of the Crescent,) and to the Heirs Male of his Body, lawfully begotten, by the Name, Stile, and Title of Baron Nelson, of the Nile, and of Hilborough, in the County of Norfolk; with Remainders to [his father] Edmund Nelson [aged 79], Clerk, Rector of Burnham Thorpe, in the said County of Norfolk, Father of the said Horatio Viscount Nelson, and the Heirs Male of his Body, lawfully begotten; and to the Heirs Male lawfully begotten, and to be begotten, severally and successively of Susanna [aged 46] the Wife of Thomas Bolton, Esq; and Sister of the said Horatio Viscount Nelson; and in Default of such Issue, to the Heirs Male of Catherine the Wife of George Matcham, Esq; another sister of the said Horatio Viscount Nelson.
Before 1805 John Hoppner [aged 46]. Portrait of Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson [aged 46].
On 21st October 1805 Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson [aged 47] was killed in action at the Battle of Trafalgar. Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk extinct. His brother William [aged 48] succeeded 2nd Baron Nelson of the Nile and Hillborough in Norfolk.
The London Gazette 15881. 8th January 1806. The Remains of the late Right Honorable Horatio Viscount and Baron Nelson, K. B. Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, were conveyed from the Royal Hospital of Greenwich [Map] […] to the Admiralty. His body was accompanied by four mourning barges on a procession on the River Thames. Located in the third barge, his body was "Covered with a large Sheet, and a Pall of Velvet adorned with Six Escocheons.".
On 9th January 1806 the funeral of Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson was held at St Paul's Cathedral [Map].
On 9th January 1806 Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map].
Admiral Peter Parker 1st Baronet [aged 85] was Chief Mourner at his funeral.
1807. Arthur William Devis [aged 44]. Portrait of The Death of Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson.
Before 1822 Arthur William Devis [aged 59]. Portrait of Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Thomas Bolton of Wells Norfolk and Susannah Nelson were married. She being the sister of Admiral Horatio Nelson and Reverend William Nelson 1st Earl Nelson who had been created an Earl in honour of their brother. Thomas and Susannah's son, also Thomas, succeeded to the Earldom on the death of William