He may have defeated the French at sea but Horatio Nelson seems to have finally met his match – in Parliament. Two historic portraits of the naval hero, including one depicting him dying at the ...

In the third feature, historian Lt Col Ray Aldis looks at Nelson's early days on the high seas In March 1771,12-year-old Horatio Nelson received a letter from his uncle, Captain Maurice Suckling RN, ...

Born on 29 September 1758 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, Horatio Nelson was the sixth of the 11 children of a clergyman. He joined the navy aged 12, on a ship commanded by a maternal uncle.

He may have defeated the French at sea but Horatio Nelson seems to have finally met his match – in Parliament. Two historic ...

The Abbey collection contains one of the best likenesses of the great Admiral, Horatio, Viscount Nelson, who died at the battle of Trafalgar (off the south coast of Spain) on 21st October 1805. This ...

In the third feature, historian Lt Col Ray Aldis looks at Nelson's early days on the high seas In March 1771,12-year-old Horatio Nelson received a letter from his uncle, Captain Maurice Suckling ...