Horatio Nelson, Hornblower Prototype and Hero of Trafalgar
Horatio Nelson, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, was born on 29 September 1758, the sixth child of Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine Suckling in a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. Horatio, called Horace by his family, was the fifth son born to Edmund and Catherine, but two of his elder brothers tragically… Read more Horatio Nelson, Hornblower Prototype and Hero of Trafalgar