Accompanied by his father, the Rev Edmund Nelson, the young boy set off from King’s Lynn on a stagecoach for London. On arrival at the capital, Edmund put his son on a coach for Chatham ...

With his longtime compatriot and co-pilot Edmund Nelson (whom he befriended as a child living in New York's Plaza Hotel where Nelson worked the elevator) at his side, the Marquis dominated the event.

In March 1771,12-year-old Horatio Nelson received a letter from his uncle, Captain Maurice Suckling RN, directing him to report to his ship, ...