Historical records matching Horatio Nelson, Viscount Trafalgar
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About Horatio Nelson, Viscount Trafalgar
Name Horatio Nelson
Event Type Christening
Event Date 28 Oct 1788
Event Place Hilborough, Norfolk, England
Gender Male
Father's Name William Nelson
Mother's Name Sarah Yonge
"England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNNN-M4D : 18 July 2017), Horatio Nelson, 28 Oct 1788, Christening; citing Hilborough, Norfolk, England, Record Office, Norwich; FHL microfilm 1,951,372.
http://thepeerage.com/p19817.htm#i198161
From Venn's online (http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/acad/2016/search-2016.html):
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Merton.
Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, June 3, 1805.
[Only] s. of the Rev. William, D.D. (1774) [subsequently Baron Nelson] (and Sarah, dau. of the Rev. Henry Yonge, V. of Great Torrington, Devon). B. Oct. 26, 1788, at Hilborough, Norfolk.
School, Eton.
Matric. Easter, 1806.
Styled Viscount Trafalgar, 1805.
Went with Admiral Russell to Texel, 1806.
Received Royal Warrant, March 1806, to accept and wear the insignia of the Order of St Joachim, won by his celebrated uncle.
Died, unmarried, Jan. 17, 1808, of typhus fever; buried in St Paul's by the side of his uncle.
(Eton Sch. Lists; Peile, II. 356; G.E.C.; G. Mag., 1808, I. 93.)
Also many references to him as Horace in Kate Williams' biography of Emma Hamilton, England's Mistress, and he's mentioned in Emma's Wikipedia entry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma,_Lady_Hamilton
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Horatio Nelson, Viscount Trafalgar's Timeline
| 1788 |
October 26, 1788
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Hilborough, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
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1800
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Age 11
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Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1806
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Age 17
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Christ's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1808 |
January 17, 1808
Age 19
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England, United Kingdom
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1808
Age 19
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St Paul's Cathedral, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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