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 spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the ...

A rare and personal relic connected to one of Britain’s greatest naval heroes, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, is set to be auctioned at a Newcastle auctioneer's later this month. Anderson and Garland’s ...