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Horatia Nelson, christened as Horatia Nelson Thompson (29 January 1801 – 6 March 1881), was the illegitimate daughter of Emma, Lady Hamilton, and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Life [ edit ]
Jan 29, 2023 · Horatia Nelson was born in 1801 as the only surviving child of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson and his lover Lady Emma Hamilton. She grew up in a web of lies, secrets, and poverty, and faced the loss of her father at Trafalgar.
A portrait of Nelson's daughter, Horatia, dancing with a tambourine and a miniature of her father. Learn about her life, family and the painting's history from the Nelson-Ward Collection.
Horatia Nelson was born in 1801 as the result of an adulterous affair between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. She spent her life searching for her 'real' mother and facing the scandals of her parentage.
Horatia Nelson was a professor of English and English Literature at Benedict College, a founder of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and a member of the NAACP and USO. She was the daughter of James Ellis Dodson, Jr., a former slave and educator, and the wife of Gurney Elliot Nelson, Sr., a lawyer and politician.
3 days ago · Horatio Nelson (born September 29, 1758, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England—died October 21, 1805, at sea, off Cape Trafalgar, Spain) was a British naval commander in the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, who won crucial victories in such battles as those of the Nile (1798) and of Trafalgar (1805), where he was killed by enemy fire on...
Horatia Nelson (1801-81) was the first and only surviving child - possibly a surviving twin - of Nelson and Emma, Lady Hamilton, conceived in Palermo or Naples and born in great secrecy in January 1801, just after they and Sir William Hamilton had returned overland to England late in 1800.
