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 ...

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.

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 ...